Automatic segmentation of echocardiographic images using full causal hidden Markov model

European Journal of Scientific Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 585-594

  Suphalakshmi, A ^a   Anandhakumar, P ^a  

^a Department of Information Technology ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Hidden markov model; Left ventricle; Texture features; Viterbi algorithm

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350580369     PISSN: 1450216X     EISSN: 1450202X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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