Towards a Virtual Echocardiographic Tutoring System

Mathematics and Visualization

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 99-119

  Reis, Gerd ^a   Lappé, Bernd ^b   Köhn, Sascha ^a   Weber, Christopher ^b   Bertram, Martin ^c   Hagen, Hans ^a,b  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

^b University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL MATHEMATICS ITWM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

AUTOMATIC GENERATION; CUBIC B -SPLINE; HUMAN HEART; INTEGRAL COMPONENTS; ISOTROPICS; ONTOLOGY'S; TIME-VARYING MODELS; TISSUE REPRESENTATIONS; TUTORING SYSTEM; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

HEART;

EID: 84874885336     PISSN: 16123786     EISSN: 2197666X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72630-2_6     Document Type: Chapter

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