Accurate quantification of small-diameter tubular structures in isotropic CT volume data based on multiscale line filter responses

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3216, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 508-515

  Sato, Yoshinobu ^a   Yamamoto, Shuji ^b   Tamura, Shinichi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SCANNING; CURVE FITTING; EDGE DETECTION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

MEDICAL AXIS; MULTISCALE LINE FILTER; POINT SPREAD FUNCTIONS (PSF); TUBULAR STRUCTURES; ACCURATE QUANTIFICATIONS; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; ESTIMATION PROBLEM; FULL WIDTH HALF MAXIMUM; LEAST-SQUARE FITTING; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 20344379673     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30135-6_62     Document Type: Conference Paper

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