Automatic tracking of vessel-like structures from a single starting point

The identification of vascular networks is an important topic in the medical image analysis community. While most methods focus on single vessel tracking, the few solutions that exist for tracking complete vascular networks are usually computationally intensive and require a lot of user interaction. In this paper we present a method to track full vascular networks iteratively using a single starting point. Our approach is based on a cloud of sampling points distributed over concentric spherical layers.

Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics - November 12, 2015 Category: Radiology Authors: Dário Augusto Borges Oliveira, Laura Leal-Taixé, Raul Queiroz Feitosa, Bodo Rosenhahn Source Type: research