A strain energy filter for 3D vessel enhancement with application to pulmonary CT images

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 112-124

  Xiao, Changyan ^a,b   Staring, Marius ^a   Shamonin, Denis ^a   Reiber, Johan H C ^a   Stolk, Jan ^a   Stoel, Berend C ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Pulmonary image analysis; Shape discrimination; Strain energy density; Vessel enhancement

Indexed keywords

3D MEDICAL IMAGE; COMPLEX STRUCTURE; CONTRAST-ENHANCED; CT DATA; CT IMAGE; CYLINDRICAL MODELS; DIGITAL PHANTOMS; EIGENVALUES; HESSIAN MATRICES; MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTIONS; MULTISCALES; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; ORTHOGONAL TENSORS; PULMONARY IMAGE ANALYSIS; SCALE SPACES; SECOND ORDER DERIVATIVES; SHAPE DISCRIMINATION; STRAIN ENERGY DENSITY; STRAIN ENERGY DENSITY FUNCTIONS; STRAIN ENERGY FILTERS; STRESS TENSORS; STRESS-STRAIN; STRUCTURE STRENGTH; VESSEL ENHANCEMENT;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; STRAIN ENERGY; STRESSES; TENSORS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOADING TEST; LUNG; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MATHEMATICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PULMONARY ARTERY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78449264636     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2010.08.003     Document Type: Article

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