Unbiased vessel-diameter quantification based on the FWHM criterion

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6512, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages

  Bouma, Henri ^a,c   Bescós, Javier Olivan ^b   Vilanova, Anna ^a   Gerritsen, Frans A ^a,b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COST REDUCTION; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

AUTOMATIC QUANTIFICATION; COMPUTATIONAL COST; EDGE DETECTORS; VESSEL DIAMETER QUANTIFICATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 36249021480     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.709273     Document Type: Conference Paper

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