3-D coronary vessel extraction using a novel minimum path based region growing

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

Volumn 7950 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 502-509

  Chen, Yang ^a,b,c   Cao, Qing ^a,b   Zhuang, Zhikun ^a,b   Yang, Zhou ^a,b   Luo, Limin ^a,b   Toumoulin, Christine ^b,c  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Centre de Recherche en Information Biomedicale Sino Francais (LIA CRIBs)   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

3 D vessel segmentation; coronary CT; minimum path based region growing (MP RG)

Indexed keywords

CORONARY VESSEL; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION; POTENTIAL FUNCTION; REGION GROWING; STOPPING CRITERIA; VASCULAR STRUCTURES; VESSEL LUMEN; VESSEL SEGMENTATION;

EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

HEART;

EID: 84884470401     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-39094-4_57     Document Type: Conference Paper

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