Automatic segmentation of cardiac MRI using snakes and genetic algorithms

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5103 LNCS, Issue PART 3, 2008, Pages 168-177

  Teixeira, Gustavo Miranda ^a   Pommeranzembaum, Igor Ramalho ^a   De Oliveira, Bernardo Lino ^a   Lobosco, Marcelo ^a   Dos Santos, Rodrigo Weber ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cardiac MRI; Genetic algorithms; Image processing; Snakes

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATOMS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; DIESEL ENGINES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RESONANCE;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CARDIAC MAGNETIC RESONANCE (CMR) IMAGES; CARDIAC MRI; COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES; CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS; CONVERGENCE (MATHEMATICS); DATA PARALLELISMS; EJECTION FRACTION (EF); EXTERNAL FORCING; HEIDELBERG (CO); INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LEFT VENTRICLE (LV); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SHARED MEMORY MACHINES;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 47749146198     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69389-5_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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