A fast 3D region growing approach for CT angiography applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5370 III, Issue , 2004, Pages 1650-1657

  Ye, Zhen ^a   Lin, Zhongmin ^b   Lu, Cheng Chang ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

CT angiography; Region growing; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY (CTA); REGION GROWING; THERAPY PLANNING; VASCULAR ANATOMY;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; X RAYS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 5644228768     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.533741     Document Type: Conference Paper

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