NDLI: Coronary arterial tree extraction based on artery tracking and mathematical morphology

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Haris, K. Efstratiadis, S.N. Maglaveras, N. Gourassas, J. Pappas, C. Louridas, G.
Copyright Year	1998
Description	Author affiliation: Lab. of Med. Inf., Aristotelian Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece (Haris, K.)
Abstract	An algorithm for the unsupervised extraction of the coronary arterial tree in single-view angiograms is proposed. Its output is a structural description of the coronary arterial tree (skeleton and borders) along with accurate information for the coronary artery dimensions. The method consists of two stages. (i) Arterial tree detection, where the approximate centerline and borders of the coronary arterial tree are extracted through a recursive artery tracking method based on circular template analysis for the local artery border detection. (ii) Artery skeleton and border estimation, where the accurate skeleton and borders of each artery segment of the arterial tree are computed based on the morphological tools of homotopy modification and watershed transform. Specifically, the approximate centerline and borders of each artery segment computed at the first stage are used for constructing its enclosing area where the defined skeleton and border curves are considered as markers. Experimental results using digitized coronary angiograms are presented.
Starting Page	769
Ending Page	772
File Size	502471
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780352009
ISSN	02766547
DOI	10.1109/CIC.1998.731987
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1998-09-13
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Arteries Morphology Data mining Skeleton Biomedical informatics Cardiology Educational technology Image segmentation Image analysis Bifurcation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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