Automatic contours detection in myocardial GSPECT

Computers in Cardiology

Volumn 30, Issue , 2003, Pages 621-624

  Comas, Laurent ^a   Berthout, P ^a   Sabbah, R ^a   Blagosklonov, O ^a   Verdenet, J ^a   Baud, M ^a   Cardot, J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL JEAN MINJOZ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; SCINTILLATION;

BINARY IMAGES; PHARMACOLOGICAL VASODILATATION;

CARDIOLOGY;

EID: 4143142221     PISSN: 02766574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/cic.2003.1291232     Document Type: Conference Paper

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