Tracking left ventricular borders in 3D echocardiographic sequences using motion-guided optical flow

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7259, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Leung, K Y Esther ^a   Danilouchkine, Mikhail G ^a   Van Stralen, Marijn ^a   De Jong, Nico ^a   Van Der Steen, Antonius F W ^a   Bosch, Johan G ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Optical flow; Principal component analysis; Segmentation; Three dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

AFFINE TRANSFORM; AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION METHOD; CARDIAC CYCLES; CARDIAC MOTION; COMPACT MODEL; CONTRAST-ENHANCED; DATA-DRIVEN; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC SEQUENCES; FLOW BASED; FUNCTIONAL PARAMETERS; IMAGE ARTIFACTS; IMAGE INTENSITIES; LEAVE-ONE-OUT; LEFT VENTRICLES; LEFT VENTRICULAR; MOTION MODELS; PROCRUSTES ANALYSIS; SEGMENTATION; TEMPORAL GRADIENTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); TRACKING METHOD;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MOTION ESTIMATION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL FLOWS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 71649095530     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.810990     Document Type: Conference Paper

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