Uncluttered single-image visualization of the abdominal aortic vessel tree: Method and evaluation

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 5245-5260

  Won, Joong Ho ^a   Rosenberg, Jarrett ^b   Rubin, Geoffrey D ^b   Napel, Sandy ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal aorta; Articulated object model; Simulated annealing; Single image visualization

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; FORESTRY; SIMULATED ANNEALING; VISUALIZATION;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ARTICULATED OBJECT; LABELING ACCURACIES; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; QUANTITATIVE METRICS; SINGLE IMAGES; SPATIAL CONFIGURATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART BLOOD VESSEL; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST;

EID: 70350719678     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3243866     Document Type: Article

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