3-D carotid multi-region MRI segmentation by globally optimal evolution of coupled surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 770-785

  Ukwatta, Eranga ^a   Yuan, Jing ^a   Rajchl, Martin ^a   Qiu, Wu ^a   Tessier, David ^a   Fenster, Aaron ^a  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carotid atherosclerosis; contour evolution; convex relaxation; coupled level sets; global optimization; image segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM PARTITION; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTOUR EVOLUTION; CONVEX RELAXATION; LEVEL SET; MRI SEGMENTATION; MULTI-REGION SEGMENTATIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DOCUSATE CALCIUM;

ACCURACY; ADVENTITIA; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; EVOLUTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84876009592     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2013.2237784     Document Type: Article

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