Graph cuts based left atrium segmentation refinement and right middle pulmonary vein extraction in C-arm CT

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8669, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Yang, Dong ^a   Zheng, Yefeng ^a   John, Matthias ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic segmentation; Graph cuts; Left atrium; Mesh refinement; Pulmonary vein detection

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; GRAPH CUT; LEFT ATRIUMS; MESH REFINEMENT; PULMONARY VEINS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EXTRACTION; GRAPHIC METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTIC ARMS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84878288780     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2007137     Document Type: Conference Paper

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