Segmentation of the outer vessel wall of the common carotid artery in CTA

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-76

  Vukadinovic, Danijela ^a   Van Walsum, Theo ^a   Manniesing, Rashindra ^a   Rozie, Sietske ^a   Hameeteman, Reinhard ^a   De Weert, Thomas T ^a   Van Der Lugt, Aad ^a   Niessen, Wiro J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carotid; Classification; Computed tomography angiography (CTA); Outer vessel wall; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

CAROTID ARTERY; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; DATA SETS; DEFORMABLE MODELS; IMAGE FEATURES; INTEROBSERVER VARIABILITY; LEVEL SET APPROACH; MULTIPLE FEATURES; NOVEL METHODS; OUTER VESSELS; SEED POINT; VESSEL WALLS;

ANGIOGRAPHY; CALCIUM; CALCIUM ALLOYS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANEMOMETERS;

ALGORITHM; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATHOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; BAYES THEOREM; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 73849152810     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2025702     Document Type: Article

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