Automatic Segmentation of a Fetal Echocardiogram Using Modified Active Appearance Models and Sparse Representation - Guo, Yi; Wang, Yuanyuan; Nie, Siqing; Yu, Jinhua; Chen, Ping (IEEE transactions on biomedical engineering, 2014)
Keywords: Active appearance model; Active appearance model (AAM); Algorithms; automatic left fetal ventricular segmentation; Computer Simulation; Databases, Factual; Echocardiography - methods; global constraint; Humans; Image edge detection; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted - methods; Image segmentation; local refinement; Noise; Shape; sparse representation; Speckle; Training; Ultrasonography, Prenatal - methods