Endocardial boundary extraction in left ventricular echocardiographic images using fast and adaptive B-spline snake algorithm

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 501-513

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

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^d RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

B spline snake; Boundary detection; Echocardiography; Left ventricle volume estimation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 77958151313     PISSN: 18616410     EISSN: 18616429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11548-010-0404-0     Document Type: Article

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