Three-dimensional analysis of complex branching vessels in confocal microscopy images

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 487-498

  Maddah, Mahnaz ^a,b   Soltanian Zadeh, Hamid ^a,b,c,f   Afzali Kusha, Ali ^a   Shahrokni, Ali ^a,b,d   Zhang, Zheng G ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

^c HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f Radiology Image Analysis Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Centerline extraction; Confocal microscopy; Distance transform; Path planning; Snake model; Vascular analysis

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION PLANNING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION;

CENTRELINE EXTRACTION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DISTANCE TRANSFORM; SNAKE MODEL;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 24344450271     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2005.03.001     Document Type: Article

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