Clinical applications of three-dimensional tortuosity metrics

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6511, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Dougherty, Geoff ^a   Johnson, Michael J ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS   (United States)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Blood vessels; Endoluminal repair; MRA; Retinal images; Retinal pathologies; Tortuosity

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; ERROR ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; POLYNOMIALS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DIGITIZATION ERRORS; ENDOLUMINAL REPAIR; RETINAL IMAGES; RETINAL PATHOLOGIES; SURGEONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 35148827500     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.708637     Document Type: Conference Paper

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