Methods for digital analysis of human vascular system. Literature review
N.Yu. Ilyasova

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DOI: 10.18287/0134-2452-2013-37-4-511-535

Pages: 511-535.

Abstract:
A review of key approaches to the digital analysis of the human vascular system images is given. We outline major stages of diagnostic image processing and analyze different approaches to the extraction and quantification of blood vessel morphological features.

Key words:
human vascular system, image processing.

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