Multiscale Vessel Tracking

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 130-133

  Wink, Onno ^a   Niessen, Wiro J ^b   Viergever, Max A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Feature tracking; Minimum cost path; Scale selection; Vessel enhancement

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; IMAGE PROCESSING; KALMAN FILTERING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); VECTORS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SCALE SELECTION; VESSEL ENHANCEMENT;

ANGIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; ANGIOGRAPHY; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BLOOD VESSEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0347968020     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.819920     Document Type: Article

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