Inspec keywords: iterative methods; random processes; diseases; medical image processing; biomedical MRI; image sequences; cardiovascular system; image segmentation

Other keywords: image inhomogeneity; cardiac image segmentation; shape constraint; dynamic shape constraint; random walks; weighting function; cardiac magnetic resonance image; left ventricle contractile function; cardiovascular disease; iterative approach; cardiac sequences

Subjects: Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics; Biology and medical computing; Interpolation and function approximation (numerical analysis); Other topics in statistics; Numerical approximation and analysis; Patient diagnostic methods and instrumentation; Biomedical magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy; Other topics in statistics; Optical, image and video signal processing; Medical magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy; Interpolation and function approximation (numerical analysis); Computer vision and image processing techniques