Vessel segmentation for visualization of MRA with blood pool contrast agent

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

Volumn 2208, Issue , 2001, Pages 491-498

  Young, S ^a,b   Pekar, V ^a,b   Weese, J ^a,b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); ITERATIVE METHODS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION;

CONTRAST AGENT; DEFORMABLE MODELING; FRONT PROPAGATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; ORIENTATION INFORMATION; VESSEL SEGMENTATION; VESSEL STRUCTURE;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84958162488     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45468-3_59     Document Type: Conference Paper

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