Automatic aortic vessel tree extraction and thrombus detection in multi-slice CT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5032 III, Issue , 2003, Pages 1629-1638

  Subramanyan, Krishna ^a   Steinmiller, Melinda ^a   Sifri, Diana ^a   Boll, Daniel ^b  

^a PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic Aneurysm; Fast Marching Methods; Gaussian Derivatives; Multi slice CT; Scale Space

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; IMAGE PROCESSING; MORPHOLOGY;

THROMBUS DETECTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0041419378     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.483542     Document Type: Conference Paper

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