Coronary vessel extraction method using an improved minimum path based region growing.
Qing CaoYang ChenGuanyu YangChristine ToumoulinHuazhong ShuLimin LuoPublished in: BMEI (2013)
Keyphrases
- region growing
- vessel segmentation
- coronary artery
- image segmentation
- intravascular ultrasound
- carotid artery
- edge detection
- edge information
- segmentation method
- computed tomography angiography
- magnetic resonance angiography
- segmentation algorithm
- color image segmentation
- seeded region growing
- seed points
- x ray
- blood vessels
- region merging
- cross sectional
- homogeneous regions
- region competition
- high resolution aerial images
- watershed transform
- active contour model
- som neural network
- multiscale