Analysis of MR angiography volume data leading to the structural description of the cerebral vessel tree

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 719 LNCS, Issue , 1993, Pages 687-692

  Szekely G ^a   Gerig, G ^a   Koller, Th ^a   Brechbühler, Ch ^a   Kubler O ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; FORESTRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TOPOLOGY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

COMPUTER-ASSISTED SYSTEM; CURVILINEAR STRUCTURES; HYSTERESIS THRESHOLDING; INITIAL SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES; STRUCTURAL DESCRIPTIONS; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33747511734     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-57233-3_93     Document Type: Conference Paper

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