VascuSynth: Simulating vascular trees for generating volumetric image data with ground-truth segmentation and tree analysis

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 605-616

  Hamarneh, Ghassan ^a   Jassi, Preet ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D images; Bifurcation; Ground truth; Medical image analysis; Segmentation; Simulation; Tree like; Tubular; Validation; Vasculature

Indexed keywords

3-D IMAGE; BIFURCATION; GROUND-TRUTH; MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; SEGMENTATION; SIMULATION; TREE-LIKE; TUBULAR; VALIDATION; VASCULATURE;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OXYGEN; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VESSEL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VOLUMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77957922500     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2010.06.002     Document Type: Article

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