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12 May 2004 Comparative study of dissimilarity measures for histogram-based tracking in echocardiography
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Abstract
In this paper, we present a histogram-based approach to the problem of contour tracking on echcardiographic sequences. We improve the classic single-histogram approach by using a dula-histogram technique. Then, we compare different dissimilarity measures between histograms in the specific context of echocardiographic sequences. Finally, we demonstrate the advantage of the Earth Mover's Distance particularly when intensity shifts occur.
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Etienne Mangonaux, Xiang Sean Zhou, and Dorin Comaniciu "Comparative study of dissimilarity measures for histogram-based tracking in echocardiography", Proc. SPIE 5370, Medical Imaging 2004: Image Processing, (12 May 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.536037
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KEYWORDS
Echocardiography

Principal component analysis

Heart

Image retrieval

Motion models

Optical flow

Particle filters

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