Segmentation of the left ventricle in cardiac MR images using graph cuts with parametric shape priors

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 521-524

  Zhu Jacquot, Jie ^a   Zabih, Ramin ^b  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac MRI; Expectation maximization; Gaussian mixture model; Graph cuts; Left ventricle segmentation; Shape prior

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC MRI; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GRAPH CUTS; LEFT VENTRICLE SEGMENTATION; SHAPE PRIOR;

ACOUSTICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 51449113023     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4517661     Document Type: Conference Paper

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