Automated Tracking of the Mitral Valve Annulus Motion in Apical Echocardiographic Images Using Multidimensional Dynamic Programming

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1389-1399

  Nevo, Shelly T ^a,b   van Stralen, Marijn ^a,c,d   Vossepoel, Albert M ^a,b   Reiber, Johan H C ^c   de Jong, Nico ^a,d   van der Steen, Antonius F W ^a,d   Bosch, Johan G ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Block matching; Dynamic programming; Echocardiography; Feature tracking; Mitral valve

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; PATIENT MONITORING; ROBUST CONTROL;

BLOCK MATCHING; FEATURE TRACKING; IMAGE SEQUENCES; MITRAL VALVES;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MITRAL VALVE; MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MITRAL VALVE; MOVEMENT; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

EID: 34548133038     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.03.007     Document Type: Article

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