This chapter focuses on skeleton detection for clinical evaluation of blood vessel systems. In
clinical evaluation, there is a need for fast and accurate segmentation algorithms that can …

Vascular diseases are a common cause of death, particularly in developed countries.
Computerized image analysis tools play a potentially important role in diagnosing and …

Vessel tree skeleton extraction is widely applied in vascular structure segmentation,
however, conventional approaches often suffer from the adjacent interferences and poor …

We introduce a novel vascular skeleton extraction and decomposition technique for
computer-assisted diagnosis and analysis. We start by addressing the problem of vascular …

Skeleton extracting plays an important role in many fields, including medical image
processing, bioinformatics, pattern recognition and others, and the research of inherent …

Extraction of the skeleton of vascular structures is an important procedure for computer
aided analysis of vascular data. A new automatic skeletonization algorithm for 3D vascular …

Extracting curve skeletons for vascular structures is vital for many medical applications.
However, most of existing curve skeleton extraction methods are either too complicated or …

Skeletonization is an iterative process frequently used in image processing to reduce the
pictorial content of an object to a graph representing only the general shape of the object …

Objective A general method was developed to analyze and describe tree-like structures
needed for evaluation of complex morphology, such as the cerebral vascular tree. Clinical …

In this short paper, accelerated three-dimensional computer simulations of vascular trees
development, preserving physiological and haemodynamic features, are reported. The new …