Segmentation of arterial geometry from ultrasound images using balloon models

2004 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Macro to Nano

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1319-1322

  Chen, Chaoquan ^a   Poepping, Tamie L ^a   Beech Brandt, Jason J ^a   Hammer, Steven J ^a   Baldock, Richard ^b   Hill, Bill ^b   Allan, Paul ^a   Easson, William J ^a   Hoskins, Peter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTERIAL BOUNDARIES; BALLOON MODELS; BENDING FORCES; IMAGING METHODS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

EID: 17144370648     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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