Bone suppression in CT angiography data by region-based multi-resolution segmentation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5032 I, Issue , 2003, Pages 527-534

  Blaffert, Thomas ^a   Wiemker, Rafael ^a   Lin, Zhongmin S ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone suppression; CT Angiography; Vessel segmentation; Watershed transform

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BONE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

BONE SUPPRESSION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0042877028     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.481309     Document Type: Conference Paper

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