VAMPIRE: Improved method for automated center lumen line definition in atherosclerotic carotid arteries in CTA data

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3216, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 525-532

  Gratama Van Andel, H A F ^a   Meijering, E ^a   Van Der Lugt, A ^a   Vrooman, H A ^a   Stokking, R ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; AUTOMATION; BONE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; BIOMINERALIZATION; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); EDGE DETECTION;

AUTOMATED PATH; CAROTID ARTERIES; DATASETS; IMAGE DATA;

BLOOD VESSELS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

BASED ON DETECTIONS; BONE STRUCTURE; CANNY EDGE DETECTION; CAROTID ARTERY; ELONGATED STRUCTURES; EVALUATION STUDY; IMAGE DERIVATIVES; VESSEL-LIKE STRUCTURES;

EID: 20344407798     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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