Title :
Coronary artery segmentation in cardiac angiography images based on a hybrid approach
Author :
Popa, Teodoru R. ; Mocanu, Mihai L.
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Autom., Comput. & Electron., Univ. of Craiova, Craiova, Romania
Abstract :
A reduction of the size of the coronary artery openings, estimated by the visual inspection of the X-ray images of the transient radio contrast distribution during conventional angiography, can be used to formulate predictions about clinical symptoms and dynamic reductions in coronary blood flowing. Even with introduction of new noninvasive imaging modalities such as Cardiac CT and MRI, coronary angiography remains the gold standard for detecting ischemic coronary disease.
Keywords :
angiocardiography; biomedical MRI; diagnostic radiography; diseases; image segmentation; Cardiac CT; MRI; X-ray images; cardiac angiography images; clinical symptoms; coronary angiography; coronary artery openings; coronary artery segmentation; coronary blood; dynamic reductions; hybrid approach; ischemic coronary disease detection; noninvasive imaging; size reduction; transient radio contrast distribution; visual inspection; Angiography; Arteries; Diseases; Gold; Image segmentation; Standards; Visualization; angiography; coronary artery segmentation; levelset; region growing;
Conference_Titel :
System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), 2013 17th International Conference
Conference_Location :
Sinaia
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2227-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICSTCC.2013.6689042
