Echocardiographic image sequence segmentation by multiscale directional snake

• Main Authors: Cheng, Jierong, Foo, Say Wei, Krishnan, Shankar M.
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/90847; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/4622
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper, a new algorithm named as ‘multiscale directional snake’ is proposed for segmentation of chocardiographic images by computer. The method makes use of morphological operations to locate the left ventricular center point and region of interest. In addition,...