Segmentation and quantification of blood vessels for OCT-based micro-angiograms using hybrid shape/intensity compounding

Microvascular Research

Volumn 97, Issue , 2015, Pages 37-46

  Yousefi, Siavash ^a   Liu, Ting ^a,b   Wang, Ruikang K ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Hessian filters; Intensity based segmentation; Optical coherence tomography; Optical microangiography; Vessel network

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CAPILLARY; EXTERNAL EAR; FILTER; HESSIAN FILTER; HYBRID HESSIAN ALGORITHM; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MICROANGIOGRAPHY; MICROCIRCULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WOUND HEALING; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL; ARTIFACT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HAIRLESS MOUSE; MICROVASCULATURE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; SKIN; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME FACTOR; VASCULARIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MICE, HAIRLESS; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVESSELS; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SKIN; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84918523801     PISSN: 00262862     EISSN: 10959319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2014.09.007     Document Type: Article

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