Coronary artery extraction and analysis for detection of soft plaques in mdct images

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2248-2251

  Renard, Félix ^a   Yang, Yongyi ^b  

^a Faculté de Médecine   (France)

^b Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; MDCT images; Vessel tracking; Vulnerable plaque

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL WALL; CENTERLINES; CORONARY ARTERIES; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; MDCT IMAGES; MULTIDETECTOR CT; VESSEL TRACKING; VULNERABLE PLAQUE;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGING SYSTEMS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 69949188381     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2008.4712238     Document Type: Conference Paper

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