Mitral annulus segmentation from four-dimensional ultrasound using a valve state predictor and constrained optical flow

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 497-504

  Schneider, Robert J ^a   Perrin, Douglas P ^a,b   Vasilyev, Nikolay V ^b   Marx, Gerald R ^b   Del Nido, Pedro J ^b   Howe, Robert D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Annulus; Mitral valve; Segmentation; Tracking; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

A-FRAMES; ANNULUS; CONSTRAINED OPTICAL FLOW; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; MITRAL ANNULUS; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVES; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTATION METHODS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); TRACKING ERRORS; TRACKING METHOD;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTICAL FLOWS; SURFACE DISCHARGES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONICS;

ALGORITHMS;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE; OPTIC FLOW; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND;

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

EID: 84856224516     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2011.11.006     Document Type: Article

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