Quantizing calcification in the lumbar aorta on 2-D lateral X-ray images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5747, Issue II, 2005, Pages 1341-1347

  Conrad Hansen, Lars A ^a   Lauze, François ^a   Tanko, Laszlo B ^b   Nielsen, Mads ^a  

^a IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b CENTER FOR CLINICAL AND BASIC RESEARCH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aorta; Bayes; Calcification; Divergence; Gauss Seidel; Inpainting; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); ELECTRON BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; TISSUE; X RAYS;

AORTA; BAYES; DIVERGENCE; GAUSS-SIEDEL; INPAINTING; RECOSTRUCTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 23844432675     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.587674     Document Type: Conference Paper

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