A Multi-scale Geometric Flow for Segmenting Vasculature in MRI

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

Volumn 3117, Issue , 2004, Pages 169-180

  Descoteaux, Maxime ^a   Collins, Louis ^a   Siddiqi, Kaleem ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER VISION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GADOLINIUM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; FLUX MAXIMIZING; GEOMETRIC FLOWS; PROTON DENSITY; TUBULAR STRUCTURES; VESSEL BOUNDARIES; VESSEL SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 35048886669     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-27816-0_15     Document Type: Article

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