Combinative multi-scale level set framework for echocardiographic image segmentation

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

Volumn 2488, Issue , 2002, Pages 682-689

  Lin, Ning ^a   Yu, Weichuan ^b   Duncan, James S ^a,b  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CONSTRAINT FUNCTIONS; CONTOUR EVOLUTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC IMAGES; EXTERNAL CONSTRAINTS; IMAGE BOUNDARIES; OFF LINE TRAINING PROCESS; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84974686989     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45786-0_84     Document Type: Conference Paper

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