Medical Image Analysis
Volume 14, Issue 6 , Pages 738-749 , December 2010

A dynamic elastic model for segmentation and tracking of the heart in MR image sequences

Received 28 February 2008 ,Revised 7 April 2010 ,Accepted 31 May 2010.

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Medical Image Analysis
Volume 14, Issue 6 , Pages 738-749 , December 2010

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