Automatic detection of left ventricle in echocardiographic sequences using radial search and temporal smoothing

2007 15th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, DSP 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 139-142

  Bansod, Prashant ^a   Desai, U B ^a   Burkule, Nitin ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b Research Center   (India)

Author keywords

Directional gradient; Echocardiography; Endocardial contour; Hough transform; Left ventricle

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ESTIMATION; GRADIENT METHODS; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ACOUSTIC WINDOWS; ACTIVE CONTOURS; AUTOMATED METHODS; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; AUTOMATIC METHODS; CARDIAC CYCLES; CENTER POINT (CP); DATA SETS; DIGITAL SIGNALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC SEQUENCES; IMAGE STATISTICS; INITIAL ESTIMATES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LEFT VENTRICLE (LV); LV BOUNDARY; MEAN ERROR (ME); RADIAL GRADIENTS; REGION -OF-INTEREST (ROI); TEMPORAL CONSTRAINTS; TEMPORAL SMOOTHING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 47649128494     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDSP.2007.4288538     Document Type: Conference Paper

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