Medical Image Analysis
Volume 14, Issue 6 , Pages 750-758 , December 2010

Probabilistic framework for tracking in artifact-prone 3D echocardiograms

Received 20 April 2009 ,Revised 3 June 2010 ,Accepted 3 June 2010.

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Medical Image Analysis
Volume 14, Issue 6 , Pages 750-758 , December 2010

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