Title
Extraction of the coronary artery tree in cardiac computer tomographic images using morphological operators
Abstract
Quantitative measurements of the coronary artery tree substructures from Cardiac Multislice-CT data sets is an important goal to improve the diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease. This paper presents an algorithm based on morphological grayscale reconstruction through 2D slice images devoted to the extraction of the 3D coronary artery tree. The proposed procedure is conceived as a first step prior to the segmentation and inspection of interesting substructures in the coronaries. The correct extraction of the left coronary arteries has been validated in 9 CT-datasets with satisfactory results, particularly concerning speed and robustness.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/978-3-540-72907-5_43
FIMH
Keywords
Field
DocType
important goal,interesting substructure,morphological grayscale reconstruction,left coronary artery,coronary artery disease,cardiac computer tomographic image,correct extraction,cardiac multislice-ct data set,morphological operator,proposed procedure,coronary artery tree,coronary artery tree substructure
Coronary artery disease,Artery,Data set,Coronary arteries,Computer science,Segmentation,Robustness (computer science),Radiology,Grayscale
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
4466
0302-9743
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.61
5
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luengo-Oroz, M.A.161.49
M. J. Ledesma-Carbayo240.61
J. J. Gómez-Diego340.61
M. A. García-Fernández440.61
M Desco5132.12
A Santos628126.52