Watershed and multimodal data for brain vessel segmentation: Application to the superior sagittal sinus

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 25, Issue 4 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 512-521

  Passat, N ^a,b   Ronse, C ^a   Baruthio, J ^b   Armspach, J P ^b   Foucher, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b Laboratoire de Neuroimagerie in Vivo   (France)

^c HÔPITAL CIVIL   (France)

Author keywords

A priori knowledge integration; Magnetic resonance imaging; Vessel segmentation; Watershed segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD; BRAIN MODELS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

CEREBRAL VASCULAR TREE; KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION; VESSEL SEGMENTATION; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION;

ANGIOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846850627     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2006.03.008     Document Type: Article

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