Automatic segmentation of 3D micro-CT coronary vascular images

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 630-647

  Lee, Jack ^a   Beighley, Patricia ^b   Ritman, Erik ^b   Smith, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic; Blood vessel; Coronary vasculature; Reconstruction; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION; CORONARY VASCULAR;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RATS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 35448994258     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2007.06.012     Document Type: Article

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