Segmentation and length measurement of the abdominal blood vessels in 3-D MRI images

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4399-4402

  Babin, Danilo ^a   Vansteenkiste, Ewout ^a   Pižurica, Aleksandra ^a   Philips, Wilfried ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; GRAPH THEORY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

3-D IMAGE; CONTRAST-ENHANCED IMAGES; EFFECTIVE ALGORITHMS; GRAPH CONSTRUCTION; LENGTH MEASUREMENT; MRI IMAGE; SHORTEST PATH; SKELETONIZATION;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 77950991364     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333689     Document Type: Conference Paper

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