Automatic segmentation of intracranial arteries and veins in four-dimensional cerebral CT perfusion scans

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2956-2966

  Mendrik, Adriënne ^a   Vonken, Evert Jan ^b   Van Ginneken, Bram ^a,d   Smit, Ewoud ^b   Waaijer, Annet ^b   Bertolini, Giovanna ^c   Viergever, Max A ^a   Prokop, Mathias ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c San Marco Private Veterinary Clinic   (Italy)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

4D; Arteries; CT perfusion; Segmentation; Veins; Vessels

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ARTERIES; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CT PERFUSION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGES; TIME INTENSITY PROFILES; VEINS; VESSELS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77953493784     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3397813     Document Type: Article

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