Myocardial segmentation using constrained multi-seeded region growing

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6112 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2010, Pages 89-98

  Alattar, Mustafa A ^a   Osman, Nael F ^a,b   Fahmy, Ahmed S ^a  

^a NILE UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac MRI; Left Ventricle; Region Growing; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; CARDIAC MRI; LEFT VENTRICLES; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; MYOCARDIUM SEGMENTATION; REGION GROWING; REGION-GROWING TECHNIQUES; SEED POINT; SEEDED REGION GROWING; SPATIAL CONSTRAINTS; TIME FRAME; UNIFORM INTENSITY;

HEART; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77955345133     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13775-4_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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