Extraction of the coronary artery tree in cardiac computer tomographic images using morphological operators

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

Volumn 4466 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 424-432

  Luengo Oroz, M A ^a   Ledesma Carbayo, M J ^a   Gomez Diego J J ^b   Garcia Fernandez M A ^b   Deseo, M ^b   Santos, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA STRUCTURES; DISEASES; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

3D CORONARY ARTERY TREE; CARDIAC COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; CARDIAC MULTISLICE-CT DATA SETS;

CARDIOLOGY;

EID: 34548080635     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72907-5_43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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