Vessel enhancement filter using directional filter bank

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 101-112

  Truc, Phan T H ^a   Khan, Md A U ^b   Lee, Young Koo ^a   Lee, Sungyoung ^a   Kim, Tae Seong ^a  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^b Tobe Camp University Road Abbottabad   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Angiography images; Directional filter bank; Medical imaging; Vessel enhancement filter

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; FILTER BANKS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; POLARIZATION; QUALITY CONTROL;

ANGIOGRAPHY IMAGES; DIRECTIONAL FEATURES; DIRECTIONAL FILTER BANK; DIRECTIONAL FILTER BANKS; DIRECTIONAL IMAGES; HESSIAN ANALYSES; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; NOISY ENVIRONMENTS; PREPROCESSING STEPS; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATIONS; THIN VESSELS; TREE RECONSTRUCTIONS; VESSEL ENHANCEMENT FILTER; VESSEL ENHANCEMENTS;

WAVE FILTERS;

EID: 56749131862     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2008.07.009     Document Type: Article

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