3D cerebrovascular segmentation combining fuzzy vessel enhancement and level-sets with anisotropic energy weights

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 262-271

  Forkert, Nils Daniel ^a   Schmidt Richberg, Alexander ^b   Fiehler, Jens ^a   Illies, Till ^a   Möller, Dietmar ^c   Säring, Dennis ^a   Handels, Heinz ^b   Ehrhardt, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular disorders; Fuzzy logic; Level set segmentation; Magnetic resonance angiography

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; FILTER; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME OF FLIGHT MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; AUTOMATION; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84872687791     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2012.07.008     Document Type: Article

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