TY - JOUR
AU - Najman, Laurent
AB - Int J CARS (2017) 12:1179–1188 DOI 10.1007/s11548-017-1612-7 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Scale-space for empty catheter segmentation in PCI fluoroscopic images 1,2 2 1 2 Ketan Bacchuwar · Jean Cousty · Régis Vaillant · Laurent Najman Received: 30 January 2017 / Accepted: 10 May 2017 / Published online: 22 May 2017 © CARS 2017 Abstract in the images. Fully-automatic empty catheter segmentation Purpose In this article, we present a method for empty guid- in X-ray fluoroscopic images is an important and prelimi- ing catheter segmentation in fluoroscopic X-ray images. The nary step in PCI procedure modeling, as it aids in tagging the guiding catheter, being a commonly visible landmark, its arrival and removal location of other interventional tools. segmentation is an important and a difficult brick for Per- cutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) procedure modeling. Keywords Segmentation · Percutaneous coronary interven- Methods In number of clinical situations, the catheter is tion · Mathematical morphology · Modeling interventional empty and appears as a low contrasted structure with two par- processes · Guiding catheter allel and partially disconnected edges. To segment it, we work on the level-set scale-space of image, the min tree, to extract curve blobs. We then propose a novel structural scale-space, Introduction 
TI - Scale-space for empty catheter segmentation in PCI fluoroscopic images
JF - International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
DO - 10.1007/s11548-017-1612-7
DA - 2017-05-22
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/scale-space-for-empty-catheter-segmentation-in-pci-fluoroscopic-images-fAOYgH6IDU
SP - 1179
EP - 1188
VL - 12
IS - 7
DP - DeepDyve
ER -