Toward automated detection and segmentation of aortic calcifications from radiographs

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6512, Issue PART 3, 2007, Pages

  Lauze, François ^a   De Bruijne, Marleen ^b  

^a NORDIC BIOSCIENCE A S   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Active contours; Atherosclerosis; Inpainting; Particle filtering; Tissue classification; X ray imaging

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DISEASES; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; AUTOMATED DETECTION; CARDIOVASCULAR MORBIDITY; DISEASE DIAGNOSIS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 36249008041     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.709328     Document Type: Conference Paper

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