Shape-driven segmentation of the arterial wall in intravascular ultrasound images

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 335-347

  Unal, Godzde ^a   Bucher, Susann ^b,c   Carlier, S ^d,e   Slabaugh, Greg ^b   Fang, Tong ^b   Tanaka, Kaoru ^e  

^a SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Avaloq Evolution AG   (Switzerland)

^d Division of Cardiology   (United States)

^e CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial wall segmentation; Calcification detection; Intensity prior; Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS); Lumen segmentation; Media adventitia segmentation; Model based segmentation; Shape prior; Side branch detection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ARTERIAL WALL SEGMENTATION; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND (IVUS); LUMEN SEGMENTATION; MEDIA ADVENTITIA SEGMENTATION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 44449108718     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2008.920620     Document Type: Article

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