Coronary artery segmentation and skeletonization based on competing fuzzy connectedness tree

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

Volumn 4791 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages 311-318

  Wang, Chunliang ^a   Smedby, Örjan ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Centerline extraction; Coronary artery; CT angiography; Fuzzy connectedness tree; Segmentation; Skeletonization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CENTERLINE EXTRACTION; CORONARY ARTERY; FUZZY CONNECTEDNESS TREE; SKELETONIZATION;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79551684063     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75757-3_38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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