Sparse registration for three-dimensional stress echocardiography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1568-1579

  Leung, K Y Esther ^a   Van Stralen, Marijn ^a,b,c   Nemes, Attila ^a   Voormolen, Marco M ^a,b   Van Burken, Gerard ^a   Geleijnse, Marcel L ^a   Ten Cate, Folkert J ^a   Reiber, Johan H C ^c   De Jong, Nico ^a,b   Van Der Steen, Antonius F W ^a,b   Bosch, Johan G ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Image registration; Stress echocardiography; Three dimensional ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ALIGNMENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE REGISTRATION; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

ANATOMICAL LANDMARKS; EVALUATING; IMAGE ARTIFACTS; INTEROBSERVER VARIABILITIES; LEFT VENTRICLES; MANUAL ALIGNMENTS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; REGISTRATION ERRORS; REGISTRATION METHODS; SIMILARITY MEASURES; SPARSE IMAGES; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIES; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; STRESS IMAGES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; WALL MOTIONS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; HEART; HEART CONTRACTION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ARTIFACTS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HEART; HUMANS; MOTION; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 54949098130     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.922685     Document Type: Article

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