Intracranial aneurysm segmentation in 3D CT angiography: Method and quantitative validation with and without prior noise filtering

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 299-304

  Firouzian, Azadeh ^a   Manniesing, Rashindra ^a   Flach, Zwenneke H ^a   Risselada, Roelof ^a   Van Kooten, Fop ^a   Sturkenboom, Miriam C J M ^a   Van Der Lugt, Aad ^a   Niessen, Wiro J ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Filtering; GAC; Intracranial aneurysm; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENERGY; HUMAN; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; NOISE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIIODOBENZOIC ACIDS;

EID: 80052151059     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2010.02.015     Document Type: Article

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