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

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 61-75

  Aylward, Stephen R ^a,b   Bullitt, Elizabeth ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood vessels; Brain; Geometric modeling; Hessian matrices; Liver; Lung

Indexed keywords

CENTERLINE EXTRACTION; GEOMETRIC MODELLING; HEIGHT RIDGE TRANSVERSAL; HESSIAN MATRICES; MULTISCALE HEURISTICS; RANDOM SEED POINTS; TUBULAR OBJECTS;

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIVER; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULARIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; LUNG; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036462551     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.993126     Document Type: Article

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