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

Vessel segmentation algorithms are the critical components of circulatory blood vessel
analysis systems. We present a survey of vessel extraction techniques and algorithms. We …

A number of techniques have been developed for reconstructing surfaces by integrating
groups of aligned range images. A desirable set of properties for such algorithms includes …

The extraction of curvilinear structures is an important low-level operation in computer vision
that has many applications. Most existing operators use a simple model for the line that is to …

When computing descriptors of image data, the type of information that can be extracted may
be strongly dependent on the scales at which the image operators are applied. This article …

The basal ganglia are phylogenetically conserved subcortical nuclei necessary for
coordinated motor action and reward learning. Current models postulate that the basal …

Surface matching is the process that compares surfaces and decides whether they are
similar. In three-dimensional (3-D) computer vision, surface matching plays a prominent role …

The last half century has seen the development of many biological or physical t-ories that
have explicitly or implicitly involved medial descriptions of objects and other spatial entities …

The finger-vein pattern is one of the human biometric signatures that can be used for
personal verification. The first task of a verification process using finger-vein patterns is …

We propose a general approach for the design of 2D feature detectors from a class of
steerable functions based on the optimization of a Canny-like criterion. In contrast with …