Manuscript Number : IJSRSET511805

Segmentation of coronary artery using graph cut technique

Authors(1) :-A. Niranjan

Accurate segmentation of coronary artery is very essential in order to find the depth of arterial disease. In this paper we propose an accurate automatic algorithm based on graph cut technique for the segmentation of coronary artery. To achieve the optimal segmentation vesselness measure, geodesic path and edge extraction technique are combined with graph cut technique.we evaluate the proposed method on the public images from coronary artery stenoses detection. The experimental results prove that segmentation results of the proposed method perform well with respect to centerline extraction and vessel border detection.

Authors and Affiliations

A. Niranjan
Assistant Professor, SCSVMV University, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu , India

segmentation, coronary artery, centerline, coronary angiography

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 5 | Issue 1 | March-April 2018
Date of Publication : 2018-03-23
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 20-23
Manuscript Number : IJSRSET511805
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099

Cite This Article :

A. Niranjan , " Segmentation of coronary artery using graph cut technique, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology(IJSRSET), Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099, Volume 5, Issue 1, pp.20-23, March-April-2018.
Journal URL : http://ijsrset.com/IJSRSET511805

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