Segmentation and quantification of pulmonary artery for noninvasive CT assessment of sickle cell secondary pulmonary hypertension

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1522-1532

  Linguraru, Marius George ^a   Pura, John A ^a   Van Uitert, Robert L ^a   Mukherjee, Nisha ^a   Summers, Ronald M ^a   Minniti, Caterina ^b,c   Gladwin, Mark T ^d   Kato, Gregory ^b,c   MacHado, Roberto F ^e   Wood, Bradford J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CLINICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Computer aided diagnosis; Pulmonary artery; Pulmonary hypertension; Sickle cell disease

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSTICS; FAST-MARCHING LEVEL SETS; GEODESIC ACTIVE CONTOUR; INTEROBSERVER VARIABILITY; PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION (PAH); PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SICKLE CELL DISEASE;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 77950587414     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3355892     Document Type: Article

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