Quantitative evaluation of vessel tracking techniques on coronary angiograms

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 698-706

  Sen, Anindya ^a   Lan, Li ^a   Doi, Kunio ^a   Hoffmann, Kenneth R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood vessels; Coronary angiograms; Quantitative analysis; Vessel centerline; Vessel tracking

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; BLOOD VESSELS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HEART; PIXELS; TRACKING (POSITION);

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; CENTERLINES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAMS; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; NONLINEAR ADAPTIVE FILTERING; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; VESSEL TRACKING;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY; DIGITAL FILTERING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0032912122     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598575     Document Type: Article

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