Image analysis using modified self-organizing maps: Automated delineation of the left ventricular cavity boundary in serial echocardiograms

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

Volumn 1131, Issue , 1996, Pages 247-252

  Belohlavek, Marek ^a   Manduca, Armando ^a   Behrenbeck, Thomas ^a   Seward, James B ^a   Greenleaf, James F ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; VISUALIZATION;

CAVITY BOUNDARIES; COMPUTER GENERATED; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC IMAGES; NEURAL NETWORK TECHNIQUES; SHAPE COMPARISON; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3-D) RECONSTRUCTION; USER INTERACTION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84947721714     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/bfb0046961     Document Type: Conference Paper

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