Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Volume 27, Issue 6 , Pages 437-446 , November 2003

Local force model for cardiac dynamics analysis from volumetric image sequences

  • Li Fan

      Affiliations

    • HanWorld International Inc., Chicago, IL 60615, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: 6 Muirhead Ct., Belle Mead, NJ 08502, USA. Tel.: +1-908-281-9956; fax: +1-609-799-1545
    • ,
  • Jose G. Tamez-Pena

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
    • ,
  • Chang Wen Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA

Received 9 June 1999 ,Revised 11 January 2002 ,Accepted 2 April 2003.

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PII: S0895-6111(03)00037-5

doi: 10.1016/S0895-6111(03)00037-5

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Volume 27, Issue 6 , Pages 437-446 , November 2003

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