Adaptive edge localisation approach for quantitative coronary analysis

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 425-431

  Al Fahoum, Amjed S ^a  

^a YARMOUK UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Cost minimisation; Edge localisation; Feature extraction; QCA; Validation

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; EDGE DETECTION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; X RAY ANALYSIS;

CORONARY DISEASES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; COST MINIMIZATION ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0041307307     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02348085     Document Type: Article

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