Title :
Extraction of vessel contours in angiograms by simultaneous tracking of the two edges
Author :
Lecornu, Laurent ; Roux, Christian ; Jacq, Jean-José
Author_Institution :
Dept. Image et Traitment de l´´Inf., Telecom Bretagne, Brest, France
Abstract :
A new method is presented for the tracking of vessel contours in X-ray angiographic images by means of graph theory. A model of blood vessels has been incorporated in our method which is applied to both subtracted and unsubtracted angiographic images with good accuracy and efficiency
Keywords :
diagnostic radiography; edge detection; graph theory; medical image processing; X-ray angiographic images; accuracy; angiograms; blood vessels; efficiency; graph theory; subtracted angiographic images; two edge simultaneous tracking; unsubtracted angiographic images; vessel contour extraction; Biomedical imaging; Blood vessels; Cost function; Graph theory; Image edge detection; Image reconstruction; Image segmentation; Lesions; Pixel; X-ray imaging;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1994. Engineering Advances: New Opportunities for Biomedical Engineers. Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2050-6
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1994.411858
