On the segmentation of vascular geometries from medical images

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-34

  Radaelli, A G ^a   Peiro J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active contours; Image segmentation; Thresholding; Vascular geometries

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; CLINICAL MANIFESTATION; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; GENERIC MODELS; GEOMETRICAL REPRESENTATION; GRADIENT-BASED METHOD; IMAGING MODALITY; INTENSITY-BASED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGES; MRA IMAGES; PERIPHERAL ARTERIES; PIXEL RESOLUTION; SEGMENTATION ERROR; SEGMENTATION METHODS; THRESHOLDING; VASCULAR ANATOMY; VASCULAR BIOMECHANICS; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR GEOMETRY;

ABERRATIONS; BIOMECHANICS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; GEOMETRY; RESONANCE;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77952978501     PISSN: 20407939     EISSN: 20407947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.1290     Document Type: Article

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