[The extracting of left ventricular contour based on adaptive directional filter]

This paper proposes the adaptive directional filter, which is exploited for the extracting of left ventricular(LV) contour. This algorithm could produce the exact ridge point by applying directional filter with smoothing operator in the angiography images damaged by noise the Edge Directional Vector as the result of this filter is efficient for predicting the edge ahead, while the filter parameters is adaptive. This proposed method provides the more precise and more automatic--extracting LV contour only with fewer interactions. The experimental results show that this proposed algorithm could improve the accuracy and reproducibility, and reduce the computational consumption remarkably.