A knowledge-based approach to 3-D reconstruction of human cerebral vasculature

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 405-413

  Zrimec, Tatjana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous malfomations; Cerebral vasculature; Computer graphics; Knowledge based image processing; Modelling; Symbolic representation

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MODEL; NEUROANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL VEINS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 0032124954     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4825(98)00021-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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