Vascular tree object segmentation by deskeletonization of valley courses

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 419-428

  Chen, Zikuan ^a   Molloi, Sabee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Deskeletonization; Edge extraction; Image segmentation; Skeleton pruning; Tree spanning; Valley courses

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; EXTRACTION; MORPHOLOGY;

DESKELETONIZATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; EMPIRICISM; IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 0036890672     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-6111(02)00037-X     Document Type: Article

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