Generalized pixel profiling and comparative segmentation with application to arteriovenous malformation segmentation

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 991-1002

  Babin, D ^a   Pizurica A ^a   Bellens, R ^a   De Bock, J ^a   Shang, Y ^b   Goossens, B ^a   Vansteenkiste, E ^a   Philips, W ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Blood vessel segmentation; Image segmentation; Mathematical morphology; Morphological profiles

Indexed keywords

3-D IMAGE; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BLOOD VESSEL SEGMENTATION; CLINICAL APPLICATION; GEOMETRIC INFORMATION; HIGH VARIABILITY; INNER STRUCTURE; LOW RESOLUTION IMAGES; MORPHOLOGICAL PROFILE; PIXEL INTENSITIES; SPECIAL APPLICATIONS; USER INTERVENTION;

BLOOD VESSELS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; PIXELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PIXEL PROFILING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84861983661     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2012.02.006     Document Type: Article

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