A semi-automatic method for segmentation of the carotid bifurcation and bifurcation angle quantification on black blood MRA

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6363 LNCS, Issue PART 3, 2010, Pages 97-104

  Tang, Hui ^a,b   Van Onkelen, Robbert S ^a   Van Walsum, Theo ^a   Hameeteman, Reinhard ^a   Schaap, Michiel ^a   Tori, Fufa L ^a   Van Den Bouwhuijsen, Quirijn J A ^a   Witteman, Jacqueline C M ^a   Van Der Lugt, Aad ^a   Van Vliet, Lucas J ^b   Niessen, Wiro J ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; CAROTID BIFURCATION; DATA SETS; GEODESIC ACTIVE CONTOUR; INTENSITY INFORMATION; INTRA-OBSERVER VARIABILITY; LUMEN SEGMENTATIONS; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; SEMIAUTOMATIC METHODS;

BLOOD; DISEASES; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS);

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; CAROTID ARTERIES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84883837103     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15711-0_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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