Echocardiography simulation for validation of automated segmentation methods

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Gilliam, Andrew D ^a   Acton, Scott T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Image analysis; Image segmentation; Image simulation; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; SPECKLE; ULTRASONICS;

AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION METHOD; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC IMAGES; IMAGE SIMULATIONS; SEGMENTATION ACCURACY; SPECKLE FILTERING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 48149112462     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2007.4379882     Document Type: Conference Paper

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