Vascular active contour for vessel tree segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1023-1032

  Shang, Yanfeng ^a   Deklerck, Rudi ^a   Nyssen, Edgard ^a   Markova, Aneta ^a   De Mey, Johan ^b   Yang, Xin ^c   Sun, Kun ^d  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SHANGHAI CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Active contour; Hessian matrix; level set; multiscale; segmentation; vessel

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; HESSIAN MATRICES; LEVEL SET; MULTISCALES; SEGMENTATION; VESSEL;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIVER BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; MODEL; VESSEL TREE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79952926831     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2097596     Document Type: Article

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