Modeling Envelope Statistics of Blood and Myocardium for Segmentation of Echocardiographic Images

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 674-680

  Nillesen, Maartje M ^a   Lopata, Richard G P ^a   Gerrits, Inge H ^a   Kapusta, Livia ^a   Thijssen, Johan M ^a   de Korte, Chris L ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptive filtering; Echocardiography; Image segmentation; Speckle reduction; Speckle statistics; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SPECKLE; STATISTICS;

LOCAL FILTERING; SPECKLE REDUCTION; SPECKLE STATISTICS;

BLOOD;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; DOG; FILTRATION; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; MODEL; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; CHILD; DOGS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 40949159718     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.10.008     Document Type: Article

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