A review of coronary vessel segmentation algorithms

Journal of Medical Signals and Sensors

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 49-54

  Dehkordi, Maryam Taghizadeh ^a,b   Sadri, Saeed ^a,b   Doosthoseini, Alimohamad ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Coronary vessel; vessel segmentation; X ray angiography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875576920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22287477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/2228-7477.83519     Document Type: Review

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