Vesselness-guided Active Contour: A Coronary Vessel Extraction Method
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Signals & Sensors
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2228-7477
DOI: 10.4103/2228-7477.130499