A novel approach for the detection of pathlines in X-ray angiograms: The wavefront propagation algorithm

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 317-324

  Janssen, Johannes P ^a   Koning, Gerhard ^a   De Koning, Patrick J H ^a   Tuinenburg, Joan C ^a   Reiber, Johan H C ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automatic pathline detection; Quantitative coronary artery analysis; Wavefront propagation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS; WAVEFRONT PROPAGATION; X RAY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0036020456     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: 18758312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016004005730     Document Type: Article

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