Fusing speed and phase information for vascular segmentation of phase contrast MR angiograms

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 109-128

  Chung, Albert C S ^a   Noble, J Alison ^a   Summers, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Expectation maximisation (EM) algorithm; Flow coherence; Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA); Markov random fields (MRF); MR signal modelling and statistical segmentation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VASCULARIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; DATA DISPLAY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 0036624536     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1361-8415(02)00057-9     Document Type: Article

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