Registration and analysis of vascular images

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 55, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 123-138

  Aylward, Stephen R ^a   Jomier, Julien ^a   Weeks, Sue ^a   Bullitt, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hessian; Multi scale; Registration; Tubes; Vessels

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PATTERN MATCHING;

OBJECT SEGMENTATION; VASCULAR IMAGES;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0242653694     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026126900358     Document Type: Article

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