Connectivity-based local adaptive thresholding for carotid artery segmentation using MRA images

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1277-1287

  Kim, Do Yeon ^a,b   Park, Jong Won ^a  

^a Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^b 108 302 CheongGu Apt ^*  (South Korea)

Author keywords

Carotid artery; Local adaptive thresholding; Medical image segmentation; Region of interest

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATA THEORY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOLOGY;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; LOCAL ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING; MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION; REGION-OF-INTEREST (ROI);

CARDIOLOGY;

EID: 28644446492     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2005.09.005     Document Type: Article

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