Structural Analysis Of The Coronary Arterial Tree

J. J. Gerbrands; J.H. C. Reiber; B. Scholts; G. Langhout; C. J. Kooijman

doi:10.1117/12.934596

1 November 1982 Structural Analysis Of The Coronary Arterial Tree

J. J. Gerbrands, J.H. C. Reiber, B. Scholts, G. Langhout, C. J. Kooijman

Proceedings Volume 0375, Medical Imaging and Image Interpretation; (1982) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.934596
Event: 1st International Symposium on Medical Imaging and Image Interpretation, 1982, Berlin, Germany

Abstract

Computer-aided analysis of coronary cine-angiograms provides ways to extract information about the structure of the coronary arterial tree from these films. The delineation of the coronary tree in sin-gle frames will be described, as well as the assessment of local contraction patterns from two ortho-gonal cine-angiograms. The procedure to detect the coronary tree consists of a gated background subtraction method, followed by a region growing process. The Hilditch-skeleton forms the basis for the construction of an attributed binary tree, where the nodes correspond with bifurcations in the arterial system. Minimum-cost tree-matching procedures on two series of attributed binary trees from two orthogonal cine-angiograms are used for the assessment of local epicardial contraction patterns.

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J. J. Gerbrands, J.H. C. Reiber, B. Scholts, G. Langhout, and C. J. Kooijman "Structural Analysis Of The Coronary Arterial Tree", Proc. SPIE 0375, Medical Imaging and Image Interpretation, (1 November 1982); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.934596

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