Improved T-Snake model based edge detection of the coronary arterial walls in intravascular ultrasound images

3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, iCBBE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Sun, Fengrong ^a   Liu, Ze ^a   Li, Yanling ^a   Babyn, Paul ^b   Yao, Guihua ^c   Zhang, Yun ^c  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Edge detection; Intravascular ultrasound; T Snake mode

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL WALL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FILTERING TECHNIQUE; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND IMAGES; MAIN CHARACTERISTICS; MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SELF-INTERSECTIONS; SNAKE MODEL; SPECKLE NOISE; T-SNAKE; T-SNAKE MODE; T-SNAKE MODEL;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BIOINFORMATICS; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 72749119516     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICBBE.2009.5162937     Document Type: Conference Paper

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