A review of 3D vessel lumen segmentation techniques: Models, features and extraction schemes

D Lesage, ED Angelini, I Bloch, G Funka-Lea - Medical image analysis, 2009 - Elsevier
Vascular diseases are among the most important public health problems in developed
countries. Given the size and complexity of modern angiographic acquisitions, segmentation …

Detection of lines and boundaries in speckle images-application to medical ultrasound

RN Czerwinski, DL Jones… - IEEE transactions on …, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Describes an approach to boundary detection in ultrasound speckle based on an image
enhancement technique. The enhancement algorithm works by filtering the image with" …

Multiscale vessel enhancement filtering

AF Frangi, WJ Niessen, KL Vincken… - … Image Computing and …, 1998 - Springer
The multiscale second order local structure of an image (Hessian) is examined with the
purpose of developing a vessel enhancement filter. A vesselness measure is obtained on …

Initialization, noise, singularities, and scale in height ridge traversal for tubular object centerline extraction

SR Aylward, E Bullitt - IEEE transactions on medical imaging, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The extraction of the centerlines of tubular objects in two and three-dimensional images is a
part of many clinical image analysis tasks. One common approach to tubular object …

Model-based detection of tubular structures in 3D images

K Krissian, G Malandain, N Ayache, R Vaillant… - Computer vision and …, 2000 - Elsevier
Detection of tubular structures in 3D images is an important issue for vascular medical
imaging. We present in this paper a new approach for centerline detection and …

Model-based quantitation of 3-D magnetic resonance angiographic images

AF Frangi, WJ Niessen, RM Hoogeveen… - … on medical imaging, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quantification of the degree of stenosis or vessel dimensions are important for diagnosis of
vascular diseases and planning vascular interventions. Although diagnosis from three …

An adaptive segmentation algorithm for time-of-flight MRA data

DL Wilson, JA Noble - IEEE transactions on medical imaging, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A three-dimensional (3-D) representation of cerebral vessel morphology is essential for
neuroradiologists treating cerebral aneurysms. However, current imaging techniques cannot …

Gray-scale skeletonization of small vessels in magnetic resonance angiography

PJ Yim, PL Choyke… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Interpretation of magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is problematic due to complexities
of vascular shape and to artifacts such as the partial volume effect. The authors present new …

Vessel enhancement filter using directional filter bank

PTH Truc, MAU Khan, YK Lee, S Lee, TS Kim - Computer Vision and Image …, 2009 - Elsevier
Vessel enhancement is an important preprocessing step in accurate vessel-tree
reconstruction which is necessary in many medical imaging applications. Conventional …

A review on MR vascular image processing: skeleton versus nonskeleton approaches: part II.

JS Suri, K Liu, L Reden… - IEEE transactions on …, 2002 - europepmc.org
Vascular segmentation has recently been given much attention. This review paper has two
parts. Part I of this review focused on the physics of magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) …