3-D Reconstruction of tissue components for atherosclerotic human arteries using ex vivo high-resolution MRI

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 345-357

  Auer, Martin ^a   Stollberger, Rudolf ^b   Regitnig, Peter ^b   Ebner, Franz ^b   Holzapfel, Gerhard A ^a,c  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

3 d reconstruction; Active contour; Atherosclerotic artery; Segmentation; Snake; Vessel wall imaging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STRESS ANALYSIS;

3-D RECONSTRUCTION; ACTIVE CONTOUR; ATHEROSCLEROTIC ARTERY; SEGMENTATION; SNAKES; VESSEL WALL IMAGING;

TISSUE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 33644625419     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.870485     Document Type: Article

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