Academic Radiology
Volume 15, Issue 11 , Pages 1416-1424 , November 2008

Segmental Wall Motion Classification in Echocardiograms Using Compact Shape Descriptors

Received 4 April 2008 ,Accepted 1 July 2008.

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1 This research is supported by the Dutch Technology Foundation STW (grant 06666), applied science division of NWO and the Technology Program of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, The Netherlands.

PII: S1076-6332(08)00406-6

doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.07.005

Academic Radiology
Volume 15, Issue 11 , Pages 1416-1424 , November 2008

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