Automatic carotid artery distensibility measurements from CTA using nonrigid registration

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 515-524

  Hameeteman, K ^a   Rozie, S ^a   Metz, C T ^a   Manniesing, R ^b   van Walsum, T ^a   van der Lugt, A ^a   Niessen, W J ^a,c   Klein, S ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carotid; CTA; Distensibility; Registration

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENTS; CARDIO-VASCULAR RISK FACTORS; CAROTID; CTA; DISTENSIBILITY; INTEROBSERVER VARIABILITY; NONRIGID REGISTRATION; REGISTRATION;

BLOOD VESSELS; DEFORMATION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

MEASUREMENTS;

ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; ELASTIC MODULUS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 84876724224     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2013.02.007     Document Type: Article

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