Closed contour edge detection of blood vessel lumen and outer wall boundaries in black-blood MR images

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 257-266

  Yuan, Chun ^a   Lin, Eugene ^b   Millard, Jacob ^a   Hwang, Jenq Neng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerotic plaque; Edge detection; Snake algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REMISSION; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; CAROTID ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

SERPENTES;

EID: 0032924259     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(98)00162-3     Document Type: Article

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