Accurate and robust fully-automatic QCA: Method and numerical validation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6893 LNCS, Issue PART 3, 2011, Pages 496-503

  Hernández Vela, Antonio ^a,b   Gatta, Carlo ^a,b   Escalera, Sergio ^a,b   Igual, Laura ^a,b   Martin Yuste, Victoria ^c   Radeva, Petia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Campus UAB ^*  (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

centerline extraction; GraphCut; QCA; Vessel segmentation

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE DISTANCE; ARTERIAL DISEASE; AUTOMATIC METHOD; CENTERLINE EXTRACTION; CENTERLINES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DATA SETS; GEODESIC PATHS; GRAPH-CUT; GROUND TRUTH; MULTISCALES; NUMERICAL VALIDATIONS; QCA; RELATIVE ERRORS; VESSEL SEGMENTATION;

DATA PROCESSING; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 82255164525     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23626-6_61     Document Type: Conference Paper

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