Skeletonization for re-initialization in level set based vascular tree segmentation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5370 I, Issue , 2004, Pages 506-514

  Manniesing, Rashindra ^a   Velthuis, Birgitta ^a   Van Leeuwen, Maarten ^a   Niessen, Wiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Circle of Willis; CTA; Level set; Skeleton; Topology extraction; Vessel segmentation

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); THRESHOLD LOGIC; TOPOLOGY;

CIRCLE OF WILLIS; CTA; LEVEL SET; SKELETON; TOPOLOGY EXTRACTION; VESSEL SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 5644303194     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.533045     Document Type: Conference Paper

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