Automated detection of blood vessels using dynamic programming

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 2471-2478

  Yim, Peter J ^a   Kayton, Mark ^a   Miller, Walter ^a   Libutti, Steven ^a   Choyke, Peter L ^a  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiography; Detection; Graph representation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

TWO-DIMENSIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; BLOOD; DETECTION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0042341515     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(03)00092-8     Document Type: Article

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