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HAL Id: inria-00615640 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/inria-00615640v2 Submitted on 27 Mar 2012 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- entific research documents, whether they are pub- lished or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Anisotropic Filtering for Model Based Segmentation of 4D Cylindrical Echocardiographic Images Johan Montagnat, Maxime Sermesant, Hervé Delingette, Grégoire Malandain, Nicholas Ayache To cite this version: Johan Montagnat, Maxime Sermesant, Hervé Delingette, Grégoire Malandain, Nicholas Ayache. Anisotropic Filtering for Model Based Segmentation of 4D Cylindrical Echocardiographic Images. Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier, 2003, 24 (4-5), pp.815-828. 10.1016/S0167-8655(02)00184-8. inria-00615640v2

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Anisotropic Filtering for Model Based Segmentation of4D Cylindrical Echocardiographic Images

Johan Montagnat, Maxime Sermesant, Hervé Delingette, Grégoire Malandain,Nicholas Ayache

To cite this version:Johan Montagnat, Maxime Sermesant, Hervé Delingette, Grégoire Malandain, Nicholas Ayache.Anisotropic Filtering for Model Based Segmentation of 4D Cylindrical Echocardiographic Images.Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier, 2003, 24 (4-5), pp.815-828. �10.1016/S0167-8655(02)00184-8�.�inria-00615640v2�

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