Development of a semi-automated method for mitral valve modeling with medial axis representation using 3D ultrasound

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 933-950

  Pouch, M Alison ^a   Yushkevich, Paul A ^a   Jackson, Benjamin M ^b   Jassar, Arminder S ^b   Vergnat, Mathieu ^a   Gorman, Joseph H ^a   Gorman, Robert C ^a   Sehgal, Chandra M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

image analysis; mitral valve; segmentation; shape analysis; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

3D MODELING; AUTOMATION; DEFORMATION; DIMENSIONAL STABILITY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL METHODS; ULTRASONICS;

AUTOMATED 3D-RECONSTRUCTION; AUTOMATED IMAGE ANALYSIS; CONTINUOUS MEDIAL REPRESENTATIONS; GEOMETRICAL REPRESENTATION; MITRAL VALVES; MORPHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS; SEMI-AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; SHAPE ANALYSIS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84856959463     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3673773     Document Type: Article

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