A quantitative analysis of 3-D coronary modeling from two or more projection images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1517-1531

  Movassaghi, B ^a   Rasche, V ^a   Grass, M ^a   Viergever, M A ^b   Niessen, W J ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3 D quantification; 3 D modeling; Angiography; Multiprojection

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION;

3-D CORONARY MODELING; 3-D QUANTIFICATION; IMAGE INTENSIFIERS; MULTIPROJECTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SWINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; SWINE;

EID: 10044220684     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.837340     Document Type: Article

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