A robust deformable simplex mesh model with temporal signal decorrelation constraints in echocardiography

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1484-1487

  Gerrits, Inge H ^a   Nillesen, Maartje M ^a   Lopata, Richard G P ^a   Rijk, Johannes P T ^a   Thijssen, Johan M ^a   De Korte, Chris L ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Component; Decorrelation; Echocardiography; Simplex mesh model

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; DEFORMATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MUSCLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONICS;

3D SEGMENTATION; ARTIFICIAL ARTERY; BLOOD FLOWS; BLOOD VOLUMES; COMPONENT; DECORRELATION; DEFORMABLE MODELING; DOPPLER; ECHOGENICITY; EXTERNAL-; FLOW DATA; FLOW LINES; FLOW-RATE; FUZZY RELATIONS; GRADIENT INFORMATIONS; GRID POINTS; HIGH PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCY; INTERNAL ENERGIES; LEFT VENTRICLE; LOW VELOCITIES; PARABOLIC FLOW; PHANTOM STUDIES; REGION -OF-INTEREST; SEED POINT; SIGNAL DECORRELATION; SIMPLEX MESH MODEL; SIMPLEX MESHES; TEMPORAL CONSTRAINTS; TEMPORAL DECORRELATION; TOPOLOGICAL INFORMATION;

BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES;

EID: 48149101930     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2007.373     Document Type: Conference Paper

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