High accuracy tracking of 2D/3D curved line-structures by consecutive cross-section matching

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 97-111

  Noordmans, H J ^a   Smeulders, A W M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3D image processing; Angiography; Automatic line tracking; Model optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

AUTOMATIC LINE TRACKING; CROSS SECTION MATCHING;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHM; IMAGE PROCESSING; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0031718734     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8655(97)00153-0     Document Type: Article

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