Vascular diseases are among the most important public health problems in developed
countries. Given the size and complexity of modern angiographic acquisitions, segmentation …

The identification of some important retinal anatomical regions is a prerequisite for the
computer aided diagnosis of several retinal diseases. In this paper, we propose a new …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common lung disease, and quantitative
CT-based bronchial phenotypes are of increasing interest as a means of exploring COPD …

Proper orthogonal decomposition (POD), Kriging interpolation, and smoothing are applied to
reconstruct gappy and noisy data of blood flow in a carotid artery. While we have applied …

This paper presents a novel segmentation method for cuboidal cell nuclei in images of
prostate tissue stained with hematoxylin and eosin. The proposed method allows …

Motivated by the goals of automatically extracting vessel segments and constructing retinal
vascular trees with anatomical realism, this paper presents and analyses an algorithm that …

Computed tomography angiography (CTA) is useful for diagnosing and planning treatment
of heart disease. However, contrast agent in surrounding structures (such as the aorta and …

The precise annotation of vascular structure is desired in computer-assisted systems to help
surgeons identify each vessel branch. This paper proposes a method that annotates vessels …

In this paper, we introduce the centerline extraction processes of the liver vessel systems by
using the plug-ins in ImageJ and 3D Slicer. The Skeletonize (2D/3D) plug-in in ImageJ is …

In this paper we present an approach for blood vessel segmentation from dynamic contrast-
enhanced MRI datasets of the hand joints acquired from patients with active rheumatoid …