A Nonsmoothing Approach to the Estimation of Vessel Contours in Angiograms

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 162-172

  Figueiredo, Mário A T ^a   Leitão, José M N ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

ANGIOGRAMS; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATOR; QUANTITATIVE CORONARY ANALYSIS; SMOOTHNESS CONSTRAINTS; STENOSES DIMENSIONS; VESSEL BORDERS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029270287     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.370413     Document Type: Article

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