The effect of initialization and registration on the active shape segmentation of the myocardium in contrast enhanced ultrasound

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 2066-2069

  Pickard, John E ^a   Acton, Scott T ^a   Hossack, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Active shape model; Echocardiography; Initialization; Registration; Segmentation; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ACTIVE SHAPE MODELS; AUTOMATED PROCESSING; AUTOMATIC OBJECT IDENTIFICATION; REGISTRATION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 33847130056     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1603286     Document Type: Conference Paper

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