A 3-D active shape model driven by fuzzy inference: Application to cardiac CT and MR

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 595-605

  van Assen, Hans C ^a,b   Danilouchkine, Mikhail G ^a,c   Dirksen, Martijn S ^a   Reiber, Johan H C ^a   Lelieveldt, Boudewijin P F ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3 D; Active shape model; CT; Fuzzy c means (FCM); Fuzzy inference; Modality independence; MR; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; D REGION; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; METAL WORKING SHAPERS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

3-D; ACTIVE SHAPE MODEL; CT; FUZZY C-MEANS (FCM); MODALITY INDEPENDENCE; MR; SEGMENTATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY LOGIC; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY LOGIC; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 51749085390     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2008.926477     Document Type: Article

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