retraction: extraction of the best frames in coronary angiograms for diagnosis and analysis

The original article entitled extraction of the best frames in coronary angiograms for diagnosis and analysis, published in journal of medical signal and sensors, on pages 150157, issue 3, volume 6, 2016,[1] has a number of unattributed sections of content with high rate of similarity, with an article titled local feature fitting active contour for segmenting vessels in angiograms, published in iet computer vision, on pages 161170, issue 3, volume 8, 2014.[2] plagiarism, unethical publication or redundant publication violates the editorial policy of journal of medical signal and sensors, which follows best practice guidelines given by the international committee of medical journal editors (icmje) and committee on publication ethics (cope) mentioned on the information for authors and as codified in the signed statements made by the authors regarding the copyright of their work. this article has been retracted as per request made by editorinchief and editorial board of the journal.