Segmentation of the left heart ventricle in ultrasound images using a region based snake.
Matilda LandgrenNiels Christian OvergaardAnders HeydenPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2013)
Keyphrases
- echocardiographic images
- ultrasound images
- left ventricle
- active contour segmentation
- ultrasound imaging
- medical ultrasound
- image segmentation
- active contours
- edge detection
- speckle noise
- carotid artery
- segmentation method
- fully automatic
- ultrasound image segmentation
- deformable models
- heart motion
- image analysis
- active contour model
- medical images
- speckle reduction
- level set
- short axis
- energy function
- shape prior
- region growing
- region of interest
- low contrast
- multiscale
- image processing