AUTOMATIC HEART LOCALIZATION IN ULTRASOUND FETAL IMAGES

Mozart Lemos de Siqueira, Philippe Olivier Alexandre Navaux

2007

Abstract

This paper presents the research developed in order to detect the cardiac structure in echocardiography gray images from the fetal heart. It is based on patten recognition and use a density probability function with the scales of gray. The function is also used for search of the similar cardiac structure, where it is applied on the whole image, and then compared with the pattern of structure in which one interested. In order to obtain the similarity that defines the choice of the structure of interest we use the Bhattacharyya coefficient. The method uses texture features to isolate the region of interest inside the ultrasound image to improve the results and performance. A prototype was developed to evaluate the proposed method. The results of the experiments are also presented in this paper.

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Lemos de Siqueira M. and Olivier Alexandre Navaux P. (2007). AUTOMATIC HEART LOCALIZATION IN ULTRASOUND FETAL IMAGES . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 3: Computer Vision Methods in Medicine, (VISAPP 2007) ISBN 978-972-8865-75-7, pages 107-112. DOI: 10.5220/0002059101070112


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@conference{computer vision methods in medicine07,
author={Mozart Lemos de Siqueira and Philippe Olivier Alexandre Navaux},
title={AUTOMATIC HEART LOCALIZATION IN ULTRASOUND FETAL IMAGES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 3: Computer Vision Methods in Medicine, (VISAPP 2007)},
year={2007},
pages={107-112},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002059101070112},
isbn={978-972-8865-75-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 3: Computer Vision Methods in Medicine, (VISAPP 2007)
TI - AUTOMATIC HEART LOCALIZATION IN ULTRASOUND FETAL IMAGES
SN - 978-972-8865-75-7
AU - Lemos de Siqueira M.
AU - Olivier Alexandre Navaux P.
PY - 2007
SP - 107
EP - 112
DO - 10.5220/0002059101070112