Adaptive Ridge Point Refinement for Seeds Detection in X-Ray Coronary Angiogram

Seed point is prerequired condition for tracking based method for extracting centerline or vascular structures from the angiogram. In this paper, a novel seed point detection method for coronary artery segmentation is proposed. Vessels on the image are first enhanced according to the distribution of...

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Main Authors: Xiao, Ruoxiu, Yang, Jian, Ai, Danni, Fan, Jingfan, Liu, Yue, Wang, Guangzhi, Wang, Yongtian
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4450302/