Region-growing segmentation of brain vessels: An atlas-based automatic approach

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 715-725

  Passat, Nicolas ^a,b   Ronse, Christian ^a   Baruthio, Joseph ^b   Armspach, Jean Paul ^b   Maillot, Claude ^b   Jahn, Christine ^b  

^a Faculté de Médecine   (France)

^b HÔPITAL CIVIL   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive region growing; Brain vessel segmentation; PC MRA; Simple points; Vascular atlas

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL SEGMENTATION; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS; VASCULAR ATLAS; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 20044363474     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20307     Document Type: Article

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