Minimum cost path algorithm for coronary artery central axis tracking in CT images

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 2879, Issue PART 2, 2003, Pages 687-694

  Olabarriaga, S D ^a   Breeuwer, M ^b   Niessen, W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DETECTORS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; QUALITY CONTROL; TREES (MATHEMATICS); BLOOD VESSELS; COSTS; HEART; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

CARDIAC IMAGES; CENTRAL VESSEL AXIS (CVA); CORONARY ARTERY (CA); CORONARY ARTERY SEGMENTS (CAS); CORONARY ARTERIES; IMAGE INTENSITIES; LOCAL STRUCTURE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; MINIMUM COST PATHS; MULTI-DETECTORS; POST PROCESSING; VESSEL ENHANCEMENT FILTER;

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 11244346584     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39903-2_84     Document Type: Conference Paper

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