Tracking Left Ventricular Wall Motion using Active Contour Model: PR-Greedy Algorithm
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چکیده
The active contour model (ACM) Snakes permits to simultaneously solve, in constrained cases, both the segmentation and tracking problems and has been proposed by [Kass et al (1987)]. The aim of this work is to propose a particular ACM formulation to track and analyze left ventricular (LV) endocardial wall motion from color kinesis (CK) echocardiography images [Murta (1998)]. A new approach called PR-Greedy algorithm is presented.
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