Three-dimensional morphological analysis of intracranial aneurysms: A fully automated method for aneurysm sac isolation and quantification

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2439-2449

  Larrabide, Ignacio ^a,b   Villa Uriol, Maria Cruz ^a,b   Cárdenes, Rubén ^a,b   Pozo, Jose Maria ^a,b   MacHo, Juan ^c   Roman, Luis San ^c   Blasco, Jordi ^c   Vivas, Elio ^d   Marzo, Alberto ^e   Hose, D Rod ^e   Frangi, Alejandro F ^a,b,f  

^a BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL GENERAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^f INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

automated isolation; deformable models; intracranial aneurysm quantification; skeleton analysis; validation

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

AUTOMATED ISOLATION; DEFORMABLE MODELS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSMS; SKELETON ANALYSIS; VALIDATION;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 79959563490     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3575417     Document Type: Article

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