Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Volume 36, Issue 1 , Pages 25-37 , January 2012

Left ventricular myocardium segmentation on arterial phase of multi-detector row computed tomography

  • I-Chen Tsai

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
    • Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Yu-Len Huang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Computer Science, Tunghai University, Taichung 407, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +886 4 23590121x33800; fax: +886 4 23591567.
    • ,
  • Kai-Hua Kuo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Computer Science, Tunghai University, Taichung 407, Taiwan

Received 25 November 2009 ,Revised 23 July 2010 ,Accepted 18 March 2011.

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doi: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2011.03.003

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Volume 36, Issue 1 , Pages 25-37 , January 2012

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