Fully automatic luminal contour segmentation in intracoronary ultrasound imaging -A statistical approach

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 554-566

  Brusseau, Elisabeth ^a   De Korte, Chris L ^b,c   Mastik, Frits ^c   Schaar, Johannes ^b,c   Van Der Steen, Anton F W ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Active contour; Coronary artery; Echo envelope statistics; Intravascular ultrasound; Rayleigh distribution; Segmentation; Snakes

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; STATISTICAL METHODS; ULTRASONICS;

ACTIVE CONTOUR; CORONARY ARTERY; ECHO ENVELOPE; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; ARTERY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ARTERIES; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 2542430314     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.825602     Document Type: Article

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