Intracranial vessel segmentation from time-of-flight MRA using pre-processing of the MIP Z-buffer: Accuracy of the ZBS algorithm

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 113-126

  Chapman, Brian E ^a   Stapelton, Janet O ^b   Parker, Dennis L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Intracranial vessels; Magnetic resonance angiography; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BUFFER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; ROC CURVE;

EID: 1842431666     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2003.12.002     Document Type: Article

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