Intravascular ultrasound image segmentation: A three-dimensional fast-marching method based on gray level distributions

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 590-601

  Roy Cardinal, Marie Hélène ^a   Meunier, Jean ^a   Soulez, Gilles ^b   Maurice, Roch L ^a   Therasse, Éric ^b   Cloutier, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

3 D imaging; Fast marching; IVUS; Probability density function; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DISEASES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

3-D IMAGING; FAST-MARCHING; IVUS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 33646399717     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.872142     Document Type: Article

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