Automated endocardial boundary detection using dynamic directional gradient vector flow snakes

• Main Authors: Foo, Say Wei, Kirthika Mahendran
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/91591; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6534
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The endocardial boundary detection of the left ventricle (LV) of the heart is a valuable diagnostic step to determine the abnormalities of the heart. In this paper, an automated method to obtain the endocardial boundary is proposed. The watershed transformation is performed on the morphological imag...