Title :
Digital measurement of blood vessels diameters on chest radiographs
Author :
Loup, Florian ; Karrakchou, Mohsine ; Feihl, François ; Perret, Claude
Author_Institution :
Laboratoire de traitement des signaux, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
fDate :
Oct. 29 1992-Nov. 1 1992
Abstract :
To detect congestive left heart failure radiologists must evaluate the diameter of blood vessels on chest radiographs. An automatic digital method to detect the vessels and to measure their diameter is presented in this paper. The vessels are detected by searching the areas which are conform to an ideal vessel model. Then the false vessels detected are eliminated.
Keywords :
Biological system modeling; Radiography; Thickness measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1992 14th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Paris, France
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0785-2
Electronic_ISBN :
0-7803-0816-6
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1992.5762110
