Automatic lumen segmentation in IVOCT images using binary morphological reconstruction

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Moraes, Matheus Cardoso ^a   Cardenas, Diego Armando Cardona ^a   Furuie, Sérgio Shiguemi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

(IOCT); Coronary disease; Intravascular optical coherence tomography (IVOCT); Mathematical morphology; Otsu; Segmentation; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

(IOCT); CORONARY DISEASE; INTRAVASCULAR; OTSU; WAVELET;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; GOLD STANDARD; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING CATHETER; INTRAVASCULAR OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY DEVICE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RABBIT; SWINE; WAVELET ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BLOOD VESSEL; CYTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; SUIDAE;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; BLOOD VESSELS; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RABBITS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 84883010014     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1475925X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-925X-12-78     Document Type: Article

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