Comparison of automatic boundary detection and manual tracing technique in echocardiographic determination of left atrial volume

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 755-759

  Zhang, Gui Can ^a   Tsukada, Takanori ^a   Nakatani, Satoshi ^a   Uematsu, Masaaki ^a   Yasumura, Yoshio ^a   Tanaka, Norio ^a   Masuda, Yoshikazu ^a   Miyatake, Kunio ^a   Yamagishi, Masakazu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automatic boundary detection; Diastolic function; Left atrial volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; CORONARY DISEASE; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 3543058071     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.62.755     Document Type: Article

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