Journal article
Robust Catheter Identification and Tracking in X-Ray Angiographic Sequences
Abstract
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is one of the major causes of death worldwide. Today X-ray angiography is a standard method for CAD diagnosis. Usually, the quality of these images is not good enough. Noise, camera and heart motions, non-uniform illumination and even the presence of catheter are sources of quality degradation. The existence of catheter can produce difficulties in vessel extraction methods because catheter is structurally similar …
Authors
Fazlali HR; Karimi N; Soroushmehr SMR; Samavi S; Nallamothu B; Derksen H; Najarian K
Journal
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Vol. 2015, , pp. 7901–7904
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Publication Date
2015
DOI
10.1109/embc.2015.7320224
ISSN
1557-170X