Correlation Based 3-D Segmentation of the Left Ventricle in Pediatric Echocardiographic Images Using Radio-Frequency Data

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1409-1420

  Nillesen, Maartje M ^a   Lopata, Richard G P ^a   Huisman, H J ^b   Thijssen, Johan M ^a   Kapusta, Livia ^a,c   De Korte, Chris L ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adaptive filtering; Deformable model; Echocardiography; Image segmentation; Pediatric; Temporal cross correlation; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

3D SEGMENTATION; AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; CARDIAC CYCLES; CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CROSS CORRELATIONS; DEFORMABLE MODELS; ECHO FEATURES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC IMAGES; ECHOGENICITY; ECHOGRAPHIC IMAGES; ENDOCARDIAL SURFACES; EXTERNAL FORCE; FULL VOLUME; HEART DISEASE; LEFT VENTRICLES; MYOCARDIAL TISSUE; PHILIPS; PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; RADIO-FREQUENCY DATUM; RF SIGNAL; RF-DATA; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; SPECKLE NOISE;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; AUTOMATION; BLOOD; CARDIOLOGY; DEFORMATION; DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PEDIATRICS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SCHOOL CHILD; SINUS RHYTHM; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; RADIO WAVES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSDUCERS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 79960947130     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.05.005     Document Type: Article

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