Segmentation of Vessels: The Corkscrew Algorithm

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5370 III, Issue , 2004, Pages 1609-1620

  Wesarg, Stefan ^a   Firle, Evelyn A ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER IGD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiology; Computed tomography; Coronary arteries; Medical imaging; Segmentation; Vessel extraction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL IMAGING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CEREBRAL VESSELS; CORONARY ARTERIES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; VESSEL EXTRACTION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 5644239688     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.535125     Document Type: Conference Paper

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