Fast and automatic LV mass calculation from echocardiographic images via B-spline snake model and Markov random fields

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3633-3636

  Marsousi, Mahdi ^a   Eftekhari, Armin ^a   Alirezaie, Javad ^b,c   Kocharian, Armen ^d   Sharifahmadian, Ershad ^c,d  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; INTERPOLATION; MARKOV PROCESSES;

B-SPLINE SNAKES; CONVENTIONAL ALGORITHMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC IMAGES; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; IMAGE INTENSITIES; LEFT VENTRICULAR; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS MODELS;

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EID: 77950969878     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333702     Document Type: Conference Paper

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