Evaluation of an automatic intraluminal edge detection technique for intravascular ultrasound images

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 115-121

  Finet, G ^a,b,e   Maurincomme, E ^b,c   Reiber, J H C ^d   Savalle, L ^d   Magnin, I ^b   Beaune, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c GE Medical Systems Europe   (France)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e Hop Cardiovasc/Pneumol L Pradel   (France)

Author keywords

Acoustic; Automatic detection; Image processing; Intravascular ultrasound; Quantification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND;

BLOOD VESSELS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0031951361     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.62.115     Document Type: Article

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