Automatic Detection of Region of Interest and Center Point of Left Ventricle using Watershed Segmentation

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 149-151

  Cheng, Jierong ^a   Foo, Say Wei ^a   Krishnan, Shankar M ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; AUTOMATIC OPERATION; CENTER POINTS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC IMAGES; HUMAN INTERVENTION; LEFT VENTRICLES; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; REGION OF INTEREST; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION;

LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; WATERSHEDS;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 47649117690     PISSN: 02714310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2005.1464546     Document Type: Conference Paper

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