Determining heart parameters through left ventricular automatic segmentation for heart disease diagnosis

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 2 PART 1, 2009, Pages 2234-2249

  Fernández Caballero, Antonio ^a,b   Vega Riesco, José M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN INFORMÁTICA DE ALBACETE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Active contour; Cardiological parameters; Echocardiography; Left ventricle; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HOUGH TRANSFORMS;

ACTIVE CONTOUR ALGORITHMS; ACTIVE CONTOURS; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CARDIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC IMAGES; GENERALIZED HOUGH TRANSFORM; HEART DISEASE DIAGNOSIS; LEFT VENTRICLES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 56349137714     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.12.045     Document Type: Article

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