Level-set based Carotid artery segmentation for Stenosis grading

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

Volumn 2489, Issue , 2002, Pages 36-43

  van Bemmel, C M ^a   Spreeuwers, L J ^a   Viergever, M A ^a   Niessen, W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; GRADING; HEMODYNAMICS; MEDICAL COMPUTING;

AUTOMATED METHODS; AVERAGE DIAMETER; CAROTID ARTERY; CENTRAL VESSEL AXIS; CONFIDENCE BOUNDS; CONTRAST-ENHANCED; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84944057364     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45787-9_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (13)

1. W.S. Moore, J.P. Mohr, H. Najafi, J.T. Robertson, R.J. Stoney, and J.F. Toole, “Carotid Endarterectomy: Practical Guidelines,” Journal of Vascular Surgery, vol. 15, pp. 469–79, 1992.
2. North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial (NASCET) Steering Committee, “NASCET. Methods, Patient Characteristics, and Progress,” Stroke, vol. 22, pp. 711–720, 1991.
3. M.R. Patel, K.M. Kuntz, R.A. Klufas, D. Kim, and J. Kramer, “Preoperative Assessment of the Carotid Bifurcation. Can Magnetic Resonance Angiography and Duplex Ultrasonography replace Contrast Arteriography?,” Stroke, vol. 26, pp. 1753–58, 1995.
4. E.H. Dillon, M.S. van Leeuwen, M.A. Fernandez, B.C. Eikelboom, and M. Mali, “CT Angiography: Applicationto the Evaluation of Carotid Artery Stenosis,” Radiology, vol. 189, pp. 211–19, 1993.
5. J.J.M. Westenberg, R.J. van der Geest, M.N.J.M. Wasser, E.L. van der Linden, Th. van Walsum, A. de Roos, H.C. van Assen, and J.H.C. Reiber, “Vessel Diameter Measurements in Gadolinium Contrast-Enhanced three-Dimensional MRA of Peripheral Arteries.,” Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 13–22, 2000.
6. A.F. Frangi, W.J. Niessen, P.J. Nederkoorn, J. Bakker, W.P.Th. M. Mali, and M.A. Viergever, “Quantative Analysis of Vessel Morphology from 3D MR Angiograms: in Vitro and in Vivo results,” Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 311–22, 2001.
7. L.M. Lorigo, O. Faugeras, W.E.L. Grimson, R. Keriven, R. Kikinis, A. Nabavi, and C.-F. Westin, “CURVES: Curve Evolution for Vessel Segmentation,” Medical Image Analysis, vol. 5, pp. 195–206, 2001.
8. O. Wink, W.J. Niessen, and M.A. Viergever, “Minimum Cost Path Determination Using a Simple Heuristic Function,” in Proc. International Conference on Pattern Recognition, A. Sanfelin, J.J. Villanueva, M. Vanrell, R. Alquézar, T. Huang, and J. Serra, Eds. 2000, pp. 1010–1013, IEEE Computer Society, Piscataway, NJ.
9. A.F. Frangi, W.J. Niessen, K.L. Vincken, and M.A. Viergever, “Multiscale Vessel Enhancement Filtering,” in Proc. Medical Image Computing and Computer- Assisted Intervention, W.M. Wells, A. Colchester, and S. Delp, Eds. 1998, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 130–137, Springer Verlag, Berlin.
10. C.M. van Bemmel, W.J. Niessen, O. Wink, B. Verdonck, and M.A. Viergever, “Blood Pool Agent CE-MRA: Improved Arterial Visualization of the Aortoiliac Vasculature in the Steady-State Using First Pass Data,” in Proc. Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, W.J. Niessen and M.A. Viergever, Eds. 2001, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 699–706, Springer Verlag, Berlin.
11. S. Osher and J.A. Sethian, “Fronts Propagating with Curvature Dependent Speed: Algorithms Based on Hamilton-Jacobi Formulations,” Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 79, pp. 12–49, 1988.
12. J.A. Sethian, Level Set Methods and Fast Marching Methods, Cambridge University Press, second edition, 1999.
13. C.M. Bishop, Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition, Oxford University Press Inc., New York, 1995.