Multiscale motion mapping: A novel computer vision technique for quantitative, objective echocardiographic motion measurement independent of Doppler - First clinical description and validation

Circulation

Volumn 110, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 3093-3099

  Sühling, Michael ^a   Jansen, Christian ^b   Arigovindan, Muthuvel ^a   Buser, Peter ^b   Marsch, Stephan ^b   Unser, Michael ^a   Hunziker, Patrick ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Imaging; Infarction; Ischemia; Myocardial contraction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CONTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ALGORITHMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MOTION; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION;

EID: 8544222807     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000146899.05499.72     Document Type: Article

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