Blood vessel segmentation for head MRA using branch-based region growing

Systems and Computers in Japan

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 80-88

  Sekiguchi, Hiroyuki ^a   Sugimoto, Naozo ^a   Eiho, Shigeru ^a   Hanakawa, Takashi ^a   Urayama, Shinichi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3D display; Blood vessel segmentation; MRA; Region growing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIAGNOSIS; ERRORS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

3D DISPLAY; BLOOD VESSEL SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY (MRA); REGION GROWING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 17144377088     PISSN: 08821666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/scj.20166     Document Type: Article

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