Quantification of coronary arterial stenoses in CTA using fuzzy distance transform

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 11-24

  Xu, Yan ^a,b,c   Liang, Guoyuan ^a,b   Hu, Guangshu ^d   Yang, Yan ^d   Geng, Jinzhao ^e   Saha, Punam K ^a,b  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery; CTA; Curve pruning; Fuzzy distance transform; Skeletonization; Stenosis; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

CORONARY ARTERIES; CTA; CURVE PRUNING; FUZZY DISTANCE; SKELETONIZATION; STENOSIS; VOXEL-BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES;

HEART;

ADULT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SIMULATION; FEMALE; FUZZY DISTANCE TRANSFORM; FUZZY SYSTEM; HUMAN; KAPPA STATISTICS; MALE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 83555176441     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: 18790771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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