Extraction of coronary arterial tree using cine X-ray angiograms

Biomedical Engineering - Applications, Basis and Communications

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 111-120

  Lin, Chih Yang ^a   Ching, Yu Tai ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Angiogram; Coronary Artery; Feature Extraction; Gradient Vector Flow Snake; Matched Filter; Segmentation; Wavelet Transform

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; X RAYS;

ANGIOGRAM; CORONARY ARTERY; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW SNAKE; MATCHED FILTER; SEGMENTATION;

ANGIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; EXTRACTION; HEART; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RIB; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPINE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 23844529924     PISSN: 10162372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4015/S1016237205000184     Document Type: Article

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