The evaluation of single-view and multi-view fusion 3D echocardiography using image-driven segmentation and tracking

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 514-528

  Rajpoot, Kashif ^a   Grau, Vicente ^a   Alison Noble, J ^a   Becher, Harald ^a,b   Szmigielski, Cezary ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Left ventricle; Multi view fusion; Real time 3D echocardiography; Segmentation; Tracking

Indexed keywords

3D ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; 3D IMAGE ACQUISITION; ANALYSIS APPROACH; ANATOMICAL INFORMATION; CARDIAC FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; FIELD OF VIEWS; FUSED IMAGES; INFORMATION CONTENTS; LEFT VENTRICLES; MULTI-VIEWS; REAL-TIME 3D ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; RESEARCH PROBLEMS; SEGMENTATION AND TRACKING; SPECKLE NOISE; SYSTEMATIC STUDY;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE FUSION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; QUALITY CONTROL;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79958766526     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2011.02.007     Document Type: Article

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