Level-Set-Based Artery-Vein Separation in Blood Pool Agent CE-MR Angiograms

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1224-1234

  Van Bemmel, Cornelis M ^a   Spreeuwers, Luuk J ^a   Viergever, Max A ^a   Niessen, Wiro J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Artery vein separation (AV separation); Blood pool agent (BPA); Contrast enhanced magentic resonance angiography (CE MRA); Level set; Separation

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

PHASE CONTRAST;

ANGIOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTERY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY; VEIN;

ALGORITHMS; ARTERIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; VEINS;

EID: 0141886020     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.817756     Document Type: Article

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