Tubular surface segmentation for extracting anatomical structures from medical imagery

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1945-1958

  Mohan, Vandana ^a   Sundaramoorthi, Ganesh ^c   Tannenbaum, Allen ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c Engineering IV   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood vessels; branch detection; cingulum bundle; computed tomography angiogram (CTA); segmentation; shape; tubular surfaces; vessel trees

Indexed keywords

BRANCH DETECTION; CINGULUM BUNDLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SEGMENTATION; SHAPE; TUBULAR SURFACES; VESSEL TREES;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); TUBULAR STEEL STRUCTURES;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ALGORITHM; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; BRAIN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78649674333     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2010.2050896     Document Type: Article

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