Robust shape regression for supervised vessel segmentation and its application to coronary segmentation in cta

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1974-1986

  Schaap, Michiel ^a   Van Walsum, Theo ^a   Neefjes, Lisan ^a,c   Metz, Coert ^a   Capuano, Ermanno ^a   De Bruijne, Marleen ^a,b   Niessen, Wiro ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computed tomography angiography (CTA); coronary arteries; regression; supervised; vessel segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIES; REGRESSION; SUPERVISED; VESSEL SEGMENTATION;

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART; MEDICAL IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RATING; REFINING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY; USER INTERFACES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OBSERVER VARIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LINEAR MODELS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80455145310     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2011.2160556     Document Type: Article

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