Multiresolution vessel tracking in angiographic images using valley courses

Optical Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1673-1682

  Chen, Ilkuan ^a   Molloi, Sabee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary angiography; Derivative free edge detection; Multiresolution analysis; Refinement; Vessel tracking; Vessel valley course; Wavelet denoising

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; X RAYS;

ANGIOGRAPHIC IMAGES; MULTIRESOLUTION VESSEL TRACKING METHOD; MULTIRESOLUTION WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0043200991     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1571829     Document Type: Article

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