Robust vessel tree modeling

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2011-05-31

2011-05-31

Bella, Matthew C (Department: 2624)

Image analysis

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Biomedical applications

Reexamination Certificate

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07953266

ABSTRACT:
A method for extracting a local center-axis representation of a vessel, includes: placing first and second seed points in an image that includes the vessel, wherein the first and second seed points are placed near a beginning and an end of a centerline of the vessel; representing the image as a discrete graph having nodes and edges, wherein the first seed point is a source node and the second seed point is a goal node; and finding a minimum-cost path between the first and second seed points by computing a cost of edges between the first and second seed points, wherein the cost of each edge is reciprocal to a vesselness measure of the edge.

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