DocumentCode
1673047
Title
Extraction of Tenuous Vasculature in Medical Images
Author
Cheng Ming ; Huang Xiaoyang ; Huang Shaohui ; Wang Boliang
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Xiamen Univ., Xiamen
fYear
2008
Firstpage
2430
Lastpage
2433
Abstract
This paper presents a method for the extraction of tenuous vasculature in medical images. The method includes the following steps: maximum intensity projection (MIP), two-dimensional vasculature extraction, three-dimensional seed point generation, and three-dimensional vasculature extraction. The regular region growing algorithm is revised and the extraction result is improved. Little intervention is needed during the processing, except that four parameters should be designated.
Keywords
medical image processing; CT images; maximum intensity projection; medical images; tenuous vasculature; three-dimensional seed point generation; two-dimensional vasculature extraction; Arteries; Biomedical imaging; Blood; Computed tomography; Image segmentation; Liver neoplasms; Medical treatment; Pixel; Portals; Veins;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, 2008. ICBBE 2008. The 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location
Shanghai
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-1747-6
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-1748-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICBBE.2008.940
Filename
4535820
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