Automobile surface defects like scratches or dents occur during the process of
manufacturing and cross-border transportation. This will affect consumers' first impression …

Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) optical imaging of whole biological organs with
microscopic resolution has remained a challenge. Most versions of such imaging techniques …

Motivated by the goals of improving detection of low-contrast and narrow vessels and
eliminating false detections at nonvascular structures, a new technique is presented for …

The vasculature is of utmost importance in neurosurgery. Direct visualization of images
acquired with current imaging modalities, however, cannot provide a spatial representation …

Coronary heart disease has been one of the main threats to human health. Coronary
angiography is taken as the gold standard; for the assessment of coronary artery disease …

Vascular structures in the retina contain important information for the detection and analysis
of ocular diseases, including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and …

Vascular diseases are among the top three causes of death in the developed countries.
Effective diagnosis of vascular pathologies from angiographic images is therefore very …

Automated detection of vision threatening eye disease based on high resolution retinal
fundus images requires accurate segmentation of the blood vessels. In this regard, detection …

Vessel enhancement is an important preprocessing step in accurate vessel-tree
reconstruction which is necessary in many medical imaging applications. Conventional …

In this paper, we present an automatic statistical approach for extracting 3D blood vessels
from time-of-flight (TOF) magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) data. The voxels of the …