Automatic Coronary Wall Segmentation in Intravascular Ultrasound Images Using Binary Morphological Reconstruction

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1486-1499

  Moraes, Matheus Cardoso ^a   Furuie, Sérgio Shiguemi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS); Mathematical morphology; Otsu; Reducing anisotropic diffusion (SRAD); Segmentation; Speckle; Wavelet (DWPF)

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; AREA FRACTION; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CORONARY WALL; GOLD STANDARDS; INTRAVASCULAR; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND IMAGES; MORPHOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION; OBJECT RECONSTRUCTION; OTSU; STRONG CORRELATION; THERAPY PLANNING; TRUE POSITIVE; WAVELET (DWPF);

FEATURE EXTRACTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; RESONANCE; ULTRASONICS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GOLD STANDARD; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEIN;

ANISOTROPY; AUTOMATION; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 79960960394     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.05.018     Document Type: Article

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