Model-based vasculature extraction from optical fluorescence cryomicrotome images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 56-72

  Goyal, Ayush ^a   Lee, Jack ^b   Lamata, Pablo ^a   Van Den Wijngaard, Jeroen ^c   Van Horssen, Pepijn ^c   Spaan, Jos ^c   Siebes, Maria ^c   Grau, Vicente ^a   Smith, Nic P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cryomicrotome imaging; three dimensional (3 D) automatic reconstruction; vascular extraction; whole organ coronary vasculature

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; AUTOMATIC RECONSTRUCTION; CRYOMICROTOME; ESTIMATION METHODS; EXTRACTION METHOD; FULL WIDTH HALF MAXIMUM; MODEL-BASED METHOD; OPTICAL FLUORESCENCE; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTIONS; PSF MODEL; SIMULATED IMAGES; VALIDATION STUDY; VASCULAR ANATOMY; VASCULATURE; VESSEL PHANTOM; VESSEL RADIUS;

ESTIMATION; FLUORESCENCE; HEART; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MICROSPHERES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; TISSUE;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MICROSPHERE;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROTOME; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY; VASCULAR SURGERY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; EQUIPMENT; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SWINE; ULTRAMICROTOMY;

ANIMALS; CORONARY VESSELS; CRYOULTRAMICROTOMY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; OPTICAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SWINE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84871980470     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2227275     Document Type: Article

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