Improved characterisation of aortic tortuosity

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 712-719

  Martin Rodriguez, Z ^a   Kenny, P ^a   Gaynor, L ^a  

^a MATER MISERICORDIAE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Image processing; Tortuosity

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISATION; CLINICAL APPLICATION; CLINICAL DATA; GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION; IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; LOCAL CURVATURE; MANUAL METHODS; MATLAB ALGORITHM; POTENTIAL ERRORS; SINGLE-VALUE; TORTUOSITY; VESSEL CURVATURES;

BLOOD VESSELS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; AORTA TORTUOSITY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; AORTA; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79959492950     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: 18734030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2011.01.008     Document Type: Article

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