Robust extraction of the aorta and pulmonary artery from 3D MDCT image data

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7623, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Taeprasartsit, Pinyo ^a   Higgins, William E ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

3D CT imaging; pulmonary imaging; segmentation; vasculature segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE REFINEMENT; AUTOMATIC METHOD; CONTRAST-ENHANCED; CT IMAGING; MDCT IMAGES; MODEL FITTING; MULTI-DETECTORS; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY IMAGING; ROBUST METHODS; SEGMENTATION; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; SEMIAUTOMATIC METHODS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); VASCULATURE; VASCULATURE SEGMENTATION;

BLOOD VESSELS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79751477957     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.839478     Document Type: Conference Paper

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