Three-dimensional vessel segmentation using a novel combinatory filter framework

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 7013-7029

  Ding, Y ^a   Ward, W O C ^a   Wasterlid T ^a   Gowland, P A ^a   Peters, A M ^a   Yang, J ^b   Bai, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

medical imaging; multifractal analysis; vessel segmentation

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; BLOOD VESSELS; DIAGNOSIS; FRACTALS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

BLOOD VESSEL SEGMENTATION; FRACTAL PROPERTIES; HESSIAN MATRICES; INHOMOGENEOUS IMAGES; MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS; MULTIFRACTAL ANALYSIS; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; VESSEL SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RATS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84908583881     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/59/22/7013     Document Type: Article

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