Fully automatic segmentation of the left ventricle in 3D echocardiography is a challenging task due to its low contrastto-noise compared to other cardiac imaging modalities, its typical artifacts and the grainy appearance due to speckle.

doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2015.0389, hdl.handle.net/1765/85995
IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2015
Erasmus MC: University Medical Center Rotterdam

van Stralen, M., Haak, A., Leung, E., van Burken, G., Bos, C.& Bosch, H. (2015, November 13). Full-cycle left ventricular segmentation and tracking in 3D echocardiography using active appearance models. IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2015, Taipei, October 2015.https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2015.0389