Aorta segmentation with a 3D level set approach and quantification of aortic calcifications in non-contrast chest CT

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2343-2346

  Kurugol, Sila ^a   San Jose Estepar, Raul ^a   Ross, James ^a   Washko, George R ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTIC ARCH; BOUNDARY DETECTION; CHEST CT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; CUBIC SPLINE FUNCTIONS; DETECTION RATES; EDGE LOCATION; FALSE POSITIVE; FRENET FRAME; HIGH INTENSITY; LEAST-SQUARES FITTINGS; LEVEL SET APPROACH; LEVEL SET FRAMEWORK; LEVEL SET SEGMENTATION; LEVEL-SET EVOLUTION; MEAN ERRORS; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SPLINE FUNCTIONS; THRESHOLDING; TRUE POSITIVE;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERPOLATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 84880956259     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346433     Document Type: Conference Paper

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