期刊名称：Canadian Journal on Image Processing and Computer Vision
印刷版ISSN：1923-1717
出版年度：2010
卷号：1
期号：4
页码：46-53
出版社：AM Publishers Corporation Canada
摘要：A method to automatically segment the coronary arteries from 3D Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA) is presented. The method consists of the segmentation of the hyperintense blood pools, the extraction of the heart’s contour using snakes and finally the application of a tube-detection filter to extract the vessels. Both the heart contour extraction algorithm as well as the tube detection filter take advantage of the properties of the distance transform.
