Automated Segmentation of Coronary Arteries Based on Statistical Region Growing and Heuristic Decision Method

The segmentation of coronary arteries is a vital process that helps cardiovascular radiologists detect and quantify stenosis. In this paper, we propose a fully automated coronary artery segmentation from cardiac data volume. The method is built on a statistics region growing together with a heuristi...

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Main Authors: Yun Tian, Yutong Pan, Fuqing Duan, Shifeng Zhao, Qingjun Wang, Wei Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2016-01-01
Series:BioMed Research International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3530251