Automatic segmentation, detection and quantification of coronary artery stenoses on CTA

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1847-1859

  Shahzad, Rahil ^a,b   Kirişli, Hortense ^b   Metz, Coert ^b   Tang, Hui ^a,b   Schaap, Michiel ^b,c   Van Vliet, Lucas ^a   Niessen, Wiro ^a,b   Van Walsum, Theo ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c HEARTFLOW INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium suppression; Centerline extraction; Lumen segmentation; QCA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERNEL METHOD; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VERY ELDERLY;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION, LABORATORY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84890125046     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: 15730743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-013-0271-1     Document Type: Article

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