Improved direct volume visualisation of the coronary arteries using fused segmented regions

Proceedings of the Digital Imaging Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 110-117

  Mueller, Daniel ^a   Maeder, Anthony ^b   O'Shea, Peter ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

CORONARY HEART DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; REGION OF INTEREST (ROI); THORACIC CAVITY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846990428     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DICTA.2005.1578115     Document Type: Conference Paper

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