1. A 3-D moment based approach for blood vessel detection and quantification in MRA
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Jean-Louis Coatrieux, Patrick Reuzé, Limin Luo, Jean-Louis Dillenseger, Laboratoire Traitement du Signal et de l'Image (LTSI), Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Laboratory of Image Science and Technology [Nanjing] (LIST), Southeast University [Jiangsu]-School of Computer Science and Engineering, Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), and Dillenseger, Jean-Louis
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Computer science ,Computation ,0206 medical engineering ,Biomedical Engineering ,Biophysics ,Health Informatics ,Bioengineering ,02 engineering and technology ,Magnetic resonance angiography ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,Rendering (computer graphics) ,Biomaterials ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Computer vision ,[SDV.IB] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Bioengineering ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,020601 biomedical engineering ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,[SDV.IB]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Bioengineering ,Artificial intelligence ,business ,Information Systems ,Blood vessel - Abstract
This paper describes a new method for the three-dimensional (3-D) tracking and the quantification of blood vessels from Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA). The approach is based on the 3D geometrical moments and consists of the following steps : (1) interactive selection of 3-D seed points ; (2) automatic tracking of the vessels ; (3) local computation of both diameter and orientation ; (4) rendering of the vessels. This detection and estimation scheme has been validated on simulated and real data.
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- 1993
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