Automated coupled-contour and robust myocardium tracking in stress echocardiography

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 431-437

  Karagiannis, Stefanos E ^a   Roelandt, Jos ^a   Qazi, Maleeha ^b   Krishnan, Sriram ^b   Feringa, Harm H H ^a   Vidakovic, Radosav ^a   Karatasakis, George ^c   Cokkinos, Dennis V ^c   Poldermans, Don ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c ONASSIS CARDIAC SURGERY CENTER   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dobutamine stress echocardiography; Myocardial thickening; Quantitative techniques; Subjective

Indexed keywords

ALBUNEX; BY 963; DOBUTAMINE; SHU 508;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AUTOMATION; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CORONARY DISEASE; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 35448969630     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: 15322114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euje.2007.03.002     Document Type: Article

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