Extracting branching tubular object geometry via cores

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 169-176

  Fridman, Yonatan ^a   Pizer, Stephen M ^a   Aylward, Stephen ^a   Bullitt, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Branching; Core; Segmentation; Tube; Vessel

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GEOMETRY; HEAD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY;

EID: 4444304339     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2004.06.017     Document Type: Article

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