Segmentation of myocardial regions in echocardiography using the statistics of the radio-frequency signal

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4466 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 433-442

  Bernard, Olivier ^a   Touil, Basma ^a   Gelas, Arnaud ^a   Prost, Remy ^a   Friboulet, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CARDIAC STRUCTURES; MYOCARDIAL REGIONS; RADIO-FREQUENCY SIGNALS;

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM;

EID: 34548089689     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72907-5_44     Document Type: Conference Paper

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