Automatic heart peripheral vessels segmentation based on a normal MIP ray casting technique

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3216, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 483-490

  Florin, Charles ^a   Moreau Gobard, Romain ^b   Williams, Jim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFORMAL MAPPING; FUNCTIONS; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); BLOOD VESSELS; GRAPH THEORY; MEDICAL IMAGING; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS); TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ALGORITHM MODELS; CARDIOVASCULAR STRUCTURES; CORONARY ARTERIES; COST FUNCTION; ALGORITHM MODEL; CENTERLINES; GRAPH-THEORETIC; RAY CASTING; SEGMENTATION METHODS; VESSEL TRACKING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; HEART;

EID: 20344363630     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30135-6_59     Document Type: Conference Paper

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