Fast automatic delineation of cardiac volume of interest in MSCT images

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5370 I, Issue , 2004, Pages 456-466

  Lorenz, Cristian ^a   Lessick, Jonathan ^b   Lavi, Guy ^c   Bülow, Thomas ^a   Renisch, Steffen ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contour; Cardiac imaging; Cardiac volume of interest; Fourier contour; Medical image processing; Multi slice CT

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING;

ACTIVE CONTOUR; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIAC VOLUME OF INTEREST; FOURIER CONTOUR; MULTI-SLICE CT;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 5644250860     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.533463     Document Type: Conference Paper

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