Automatic generation of 3D coronary artery centerlines using rotational X-ray angiography

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 846-858

  Jandt, Uwe ^a,b   Schäfer, Dirk ^a   Grass, Michael ^a   Rasche, Volker ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coronary angiography; Coronary artery disease; Coronary modeling; Fast marching; Stenosis quantification; Stent planning

Indexed keywords

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY MODELING; FAST MARCHING; STENOSIS QUANTIFICATION; STENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70350304823     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2009.07.010     Document Type: Article

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