Local morphology fitting active contour for automatic vascular segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 464-473

  Sun, Kaiqiong ^a   Chen, Zhen ^a   Jiang, Shaofeng ^a  

^a NANCHANG HANGKONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Active contour; level set; morphology filter; segmentation; vessel

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; ACTIVE CONTOURS; ADAPTIVE SCALE; CONTOUR EVOLUTION; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET FRAMEWORK; LINEAR STRUCTURING ELEMENTS; LOCAL ESTIMATION; LOCAL MODEL; LOCAL REGION; MORPHOLOGY FILTER; SYNTHETIC IMAGES; VESSEL;

BIOPHYSICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

MORPHOLOGY;

ACCURACY; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MORPHOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 84862937074     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2174362     Document Type: Article

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