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Harmonic Skeleton Guided Evaluation of Stenoses in Human Coronary Arteries

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Harmonic Skeleton Guided Evaluation of Stenoses in Human Coronary Arteries
This paper presents a novel approach that three-dimensionally visualizes and evaluates stenoses in human coronary arteries by using harmonic skeletons. A harmonic skeleton is the center line of a multi-branched tubular surface extracted based on a harmonic function, which is the solution of the Laplace equation. This skeletonization method guarantees smoothness and connectivity and provides a fast and straightforward way to calculate local cross-sectional areas of the arteries, and thus provides the possibility to localize and evaluate coronary artery stenosis, which is a commonly seen pathology in coronary artery disease.
Yan Yang, Lei Zhu, Steven Haker, Allen Tannenbaum,
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Type Conference
Year 2005
Where MICCAI
Authors Yan Yang, Lei Zhu, Steven Haker, Allen Tannenbaum, Don P. Giddens
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