A vessel valley-course generation algorithm for quantitative analysis of angiograms

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4684 III, Issue , 2002, Pages 1488-1495

  Chen, Zikuan ^a   Molloi, Sabee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Edge extraction; Invariance; Noise immunity; Vessel tracking; Vessel valley course

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARDIOLOGY; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SCANNING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ANGIOGRAMS;

ANGIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036028350     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.467115     Document Type: Conference Paper

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