Aortic dissection is the most common acute emergency condition of the aorta and often has
a fatal outcome. Outcome is determined by the type and extent of dissection and the …

Computed tomographic (CT) angiography has been improved significantly with the
introduction of four-to 64-section spiral CT scanners, which offer rapid acquisition of isotropic …

Visualization in Medicine is the first book on visualization and its application to problems in
medical diagnosis, education, and treatment. The book describes the algorithms, the …

Visual Computing for Medicine, Second Edition, offers cutting-edge visualization techniques
and their applications in medical diagnosis, education, and treatment. The book includes …

Image processing algorithms and a prototypical research software tool have been
developed for visualization and quantitative analysis of vessels in data sets from computed …

PURPOSE: To prospectively compare the diagnostic accuracies of color duplex
ultrasonography (US) and contrast material–enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) …

Although there are many algorithms available in the literature aimed at segmentation and
model reconstruction of 3D angiographic images, many are focused on characterizing only a …

Purpose: It is essential to evaluate new stent designs before in vivo testing. The purpose of
this study was to develop and validate a controlled and reproducible patient-derived process …

In one embodiment, a method of detecting centerline of a vessel is provided. The method
comprises steps of acquiring a 3D image volume, initializing a centerline, initializing a …

It is clinically important to quantify the geometric parameters of an abnormal vessel, as this
information can aid radiologists in choosing appropriate treatments or apparatuses …