Towards an automatic coronary artery segmentation algorithm

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3037-3040

  Fallavollita, Pascal ^a,b   Cheriet, Farida ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC FRAME EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS; FAST MARCHING METHOD; VESSEL CONTOURS; X RAY FLUOROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 34047095074     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260614     Document Type: Conference Paper

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