MRA data segmentation using level sets

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 173-176

  Hassan, Hossam ^a   Farag, Aly A ^a  

^a University of Louisville ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Level Set Segmentation; MRA; PDE; Seed Initialization; Vascular Tree

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY (MRA); SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SET THEORY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0345134604     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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