A unified minimal path tracking and topology characterization approach for vascular analysis

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6326 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 11-20

  Çetingül, Hasan Ertan ^a   Gülsün, Mehmet Akif ^b   Tek, Hüseyin ^b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTERLINES; COARSE-TO-FINE; CONTRAST-ENHANCED; COST PATH; CRITICAL CONFIGURATIONS; DESCRIPTORS; GRAPH-BASED; IMAGE NOISE; LOCAL OPERATORS; MEDIAL AXIS; MINIMAL PATH; MULTISCALES; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; POINT OF INTEREST; RELIABLE ESTIMATES; SCALE-INVARIANT; SEED POINT; SEPARATE ANALYSIS; TUBULAR STRUCTURES; VASCULAR ANALYSIS; VASCULATURE;

AUGMENTED REALITY; BLOOD VESSELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; TUBULAR STEEL STRUCTURES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 78049416036     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15699-1_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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