Myocardium tracking via matching distributions

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 37-44

  Ben Ayed, Ismail ^a   Li, Shuo ^a   Ross, Ian ^b   Islam, Ali ^c  

^a GE HEALTHCARE   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^c ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bhattacharyya measure; Cardiac imaging; Level sets; Magnetic Resonance (MR); Matching distributions; Myocardium tracking

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; HEART MUSCLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 63149160584     PISSN: 18616410     EISSN: 18616429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11548-008-0265-y     Document Type: Article

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