Automatic detection of plaques with severe stenosis in coronary vessels of CT angiography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7624, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Dinesh, M S ^a   Devarakota, Pandu ^a   Kumar, Jitendra ^a  

^a Siemens Ltd India   (India)

Author keywords

Coronary vessels; Degree of stenosis; Plaque Measurement; Vessel extraction; Vessel lumen extraction; Vessel Straightening

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; EXTRACTION; HEART; MEDICAL IMAGING;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSEL; DEGREE OF STENOSIS; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; NEAREST NEIGHBOR CLASSIFICATION; VESSEL EXTRACTION; VESSEL LUMEN;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84876176530     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844197     Document Type: Conference Paper

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