Fast block flow tracking of atrial septal defects in 4D echocardiography

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 397-412

  Linguraru, Marius George ^a   Vasilyev, Nikolay V ^b   Marx, Gerald R ^b   Tworetzky, Wayne ^b   Del Nido, Pedro J ^b   Howe, Robert D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial septal defect; Block flow; Block matching; Echocardiography; Mutual information; Optical flow; Real time ultrasound; Tracking

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MICROFLUIDICS; MOTION COMPENSATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPLATE MATCHING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

3D ULTRASOUND (3D US); BLOCK MATCHING (BM); CARDIAC CYCLES; CARDIAC ULTRASOUND; COMPUTATION COSTS; DATA-SETS; ELSEVIER (CO); FLOW TRACKING; FRAME RATES; IN-VIVO; INTRA-OPERATIVE; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); REGION-BASED; SEPTAL DEFECT; SYNTHETIC DATA; TIME SEQUENCES; TRACKING ERRORS;

OPTICAL FLOWS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FOUR DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, FOUR-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; SWINE;

EID: 46749135649     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2007.12.005     Document Type: Article

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