Computerized segmentation of blood and luminal borders in intravascular ultrasound

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1122-1125

  Perrey, Christian ^a   Scheipers, Ulrich ^a   Bojara, Waldemar ^a   Lindstaedt, Michael ^a   Holt, Stephan ^a   Ermert, Helmut ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classification; Intravascular ultrasound; Segmentation; Tissue characterization

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MORPHOLOGY; TISSUE;

INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MINIMUM COST ALGORITHMS; RF FRAMES; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 21644468047     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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