A novel active contour model using local and global statistics for vessel extraction

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3126-3129

  Sum, K W ^b   Cheung, Paul Y S ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Active contours; Level set method; Medical image analysis; Narrow band; Vessel extraction

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; GRADIENT METHODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICS;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; LEVEL SET METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; NARROW BANDS; VESSEL EXTRACTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84926232892     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260817     Document Type: Conference Paper

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