Soft level set coupling for LV segmentation in gated perfusion SPECT

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4791 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages 327-334

  Kohlberger, Timo ^a   Funka Lea, Gareth ^a   Desh, Vladimir ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

DISTANCE FUNCTIONS; MYOCARDIUM; WALL THICKNESS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; GATED IMAGING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART VENTRICLES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84883839695     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75757-3_40     Document Type: Conference Paper

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