@inproceedings{41067665291d41098438c023ed24187c,
title = "Automatic extraction of coronary vessels from digital subtraction angiography",
abstract = "In the X-ray coronary digital subtraction angiography, there are serious motion artifacts and noises, and backgrounds such as ribs, spine, cathers and etc. which are tube structures and like vessels. It's difficult to separate vessels from the background automatically if they are close each other. In this paper, an automatic extraction of coronary vessels from X-ray digital subtraction angiography is proposed. We used edge preserving smooth filter to reduce the noises in the images and keep the vessel edge firstly. Then affine and B-spline based FFD nonrigid registration is applied to the images. Compared with the segmentation method, the proposed method can remove background greatly and extract the coronary vessel very well.",
keywords = "Coronary vessels, Nonrigid registration, X-ray digital subtraction angiography",
author = "Songyuan Tang and Junhai Wen and Yongtian Wang and Chen, {Yen Wei}",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1117/12.708749",
language = "English",
isbn = "0819466271",
series = "Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE",
number = "PART 2",
booktitle = "Medical Imaging 2007",
edition = "PART 2",
note = "Medical Imaging 2007: Visualization and Image-Guided Procedures ; Conference date: 18-02-2007 Through 20-02-2007",
}