Linear cost reconstruction of vascular trees from intensity volume angiograms

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4875, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 195-200

  Yi, Dingrong ^a   Hayward, Vincent ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Centerline extraction; Directed graph; Intensity volume image; Voxel coding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE CODING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

INTENSITY VOLUME ANGIOGRAMS; LINEAR COST RECONSTRUCTION; VASCULAR TREES; VOXEL CODING;

ANGIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036448017     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.477141     Document Type: Conference Paper

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