Semi-automatic level-set based segmentation and stenosis quantification of the internal carotid artery in 3D CTA data sets

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-34

  Scherl, Holger ^a   Hornegger, Joachim ^a   Prümmer, Marcus ^a   Lell, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chan Vese Model; Computed tomography angiography; Internal carotid artery; Level set method; Quantification; Segmentation; Stenosis

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL COMPUTING;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; LEVEL-SET METHOD; STENOSIS QUANTIFICATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; AUTOMATION; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33846799344     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2006.09.004     Document Type: Article

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