A method for automated extraction of aorta and pulmonary artery in the mediastinum using medial line models from 3D chest X-ray CT images without contrast materials

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 273-276

  Kitasaka, Takayuki ^a   Mori, Kensaku ^b   Hasegawa, Jun Ichi ^c   Toriwaki, Jun Ichiro ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHUKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; BLOOD VESSELS; EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

DISTANCE TRANSFORMATION; LIKELIHOOD IMAGES; MEDIAL LINES; PULMONARY ARTERY;

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

AUTOMATED EXTRACTION; CHEST X-RAY CT IMAGES; CONTRAST MATERIAL; DISTANCE TRANSFORMATION; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; EXTRACT CONTOURS; LOCAL STANDARD DEVIATION; PULMONARY ARTERY;

EID: 5644260449     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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