Simultaneous segmentation and tree reconstruction of the coronary arteries in MSCT images

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5031, Issue , 2003, Pages 167-177

  Lorenz, Cristian ^a   Renisch, Steffen ^a   Schlathölter, Thorsten ^a   Bülow, Thomas ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coronary arteries; CT; Front propagation; Front reasoning; Segmentation; Tree reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; HEURISTIC METHODS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY TREE; FAST REGION EXPANSION METHOD; FRONT PROPAGATION; FRONT REASONING; TREE RECONSTRUCTION;

ANGIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0041826841     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.480314     Document Type: Conference Paper

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