Digital measurement of blood vessels diameters on chest radiographs
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Loup, Florian; Karrakchou, Mohsine; Feihl, Francois; Perret, Claude
- Source
- 1992 14th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1992 14th Annual International Conference of the IEEE. 5:1940-1941 Oct, 1992
- Subject
- Bioengineering
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Signal Processing and Analysis
Robotics and Control Systems
Thickness measurement
Radiography
Biological system modeling
- Language
To detect congestive left heart failure radiologists must evaluate the diameter of blood vessels on chest radiographs. An automatic digital method to detect the vessels and to measure their diameter is presented in this paper. The vessels are detected by searching the areas which are conform to an ideal vessel model. Then the false vessels detected are eliminated.