Improving accuracy in coronary lumen segmentation via explicit calcium exclusion, learning-based ray detection and surface optimization

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 9034, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Lugauer, Felix ^a,b   Zhang, Jingdan ^c   Zheng, Yefeng ^c   Hornegger, Joachim ^b   Kelm, B Michael ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

CAD; Calcium suppression; Coronary artery segmentation; CTA; Lumen segmentation

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; CALCIUM; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY SEGMENTATION; CORONARY BLOOD FLOWS; CTA; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVES; LUMEN SEGMENTATIONS; SEGMENTATION ACCURACY;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 84902095862     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2043238     Document Type: Conference Paper

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