A review of 3D vessel lumen segmentation techniques: Models, features and extraction schemes

D Lesage, ED Angelini, I Bloch, G Funka-Lea - Medical image analysis, 2009 - Elsevier
Vascular diseases are among the most important public health problems in developed
countries. Given the size and complexity of modern angiographic acquisitions, segmentation …

Automatic recognition of cortical sulci of the human brain using a congregation of neural networks

D Riviere, JF Mangin, D Papadopoulos-Orfanos… - Medical image …, 2002 - Elsevier
This paper describes a complete system allowing automatic recognition of the main sulci of
the human cortex. This system relies on a preprocessing of magnetic resonance images …

A survey on skeletonization algorithms and their applications

PK Saha, G Borgefors, GS di Baja - Pattern recognition letters, 2016 - Elsevier
Skeletonization provides an effective and compact representation of objects, which is useful
for object description, retrieval, manipulation, matching, registration, tracking, recognition …

[BUKU][B] Digital geometry: Geometric methods for digital picture analysis

R Klette, A Rosenfeld - 2004 - books.google.com
Digital geometry is about deriving geometric information from digital pictures. The field
emerged from its mathematical roots some forty-years ago through work in computer-based …

[BUKU][B] Mathematical morphology: from theory to applications

L Najman, H Talbot - 2013 - books.google.com
Mathematical Morphology allows for the analysis and processing of geometrical structures
using techniques based on the fields of set theory, lattice theory, topology, and random …

[BUKU][B] Medial representations: mathematics, algorithms and applications

K Siddiqi, S Pizer - 2008 - books.google.com
The last half century has seen the development of many biological or physical t-ories that
have explicitly or implicitly involved medial descriptions of objects and other spatial entities …

Hamilton-jacobi skeletons

K Siddiqi, S Bouix, A Tannenbaum… - International Journal of …, 2002 - Springer
The eikonal equation and variants of it are of significant interest for problems in computer
vision and image processing. It is the basis for continuous versions of mathematical …

Fully automatic anatomical, pathological, and functional segmentation from CT scans for hepatic surgery

L Soler, H Delingette, G Malandain… - Computer Aided …, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: To improve the planning of hepatic surgery, we have developed a fully automatic
anatomical, pathological, and functional segmentation of the liver derived from a spiral CT …

From 3D magnetic resonance images to structural representations of the cortex topography using topology preserving deformations

JF Mangin, V Frouin, I Bloch, J Régis… - Journal of Mathematical …, 1995 - Springer
We propose an algorithm allowing the construction of a structural representation of the
cortical topography from a T1-weighted 3D MR image. This representation is an attributed …

Retrieving articulated 3-D models using medial surfaces

K Siddiqi, J Zhang, D Macrini, A Shokoufandeh… - Machine vision and …, 2008 - Springer
We consider the use of medial surfaces to represent symmetries of 3-D objects. This allows
for a qualitative abstraction based on a directed acyclic graph of components and also a …