Tracking of the anterior mitral leaflet in echocardiographic sequences using active contours.
Malik Saad SultanNelson MartinsDiana VeigaManuel João FerreiraMiguel Tavares CoimbraPublished in: EMBC (2016)
Keyphrases
- active contours
- mitral valve
- beating heart
- cardiac motion
- geometric active contours
- active contour model
- level set
- object boundaries
- subject specific
- object segmentation and tracking
- cardiac cycle
- energy functional
- level set method
- shape prior
- gradient vector flow
- segmentation method
- image segmentation
- curve evolution
- motion compensation
- particle filter
- energy function
- geodesic active contours
- texture image segmentation
- gradient flow
- minimally invasive
- left ventricular
- sobolev active contours
- object detection
- magnetic resonance imaging
- active contour segmentation
- force field
- appearance model
- mean shift
- deformable models
- external force
- fully automatic