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 …

A review of vessel extraction techniques and algorithms

C Kirbas, F Quek - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2004 - dl.acm.org
Vessel segmentation algorithms are the critical components of circulatory blood vessel
analysis systems. We present a survey of vessel extraction techniques and algorithms. We …

Retinal vessel segmentation using the 2-D Gabor wavelet and supervised classification

JVB Soares, JJG Leandro, RM Cesar… - … on medical Imaging, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a method for automated segmentation of the vasculature in retinal images. The
method produces segmentations by classifying each image pixel as vessel or nonvessel …

Dense biased networks with deep priori anatomy and hard region adaptation: Semi-supervised learning for fine renal artery segmentation

Y He, G Yang, J Yang, Y Chen, Y Kong, J Wu… - Medical image …, 2020 - Elsevier
Fine renal artery segmentation on abdominal CT angiography (CTA) image is one of the
most important tasks for kidney disease diagnosis and pre-operative planning. It will help …

Vessel segmentation and width estimation in retinal images using multiscale production of matched filter responses

Q Li, J You, D Zhang - Expert Systems with Applications, 2012 - Elsevier
Automated segmentation of blood vessels in retinal images can help ophthalmologists
screen larger populations for vessel abnormalities. However, automated vessel extraction is …

Multilayered thresholding-based blood vessel segmentation for screening of diabetic retinopathy

MU Akram, SA Khan - Engineering with computers, 2013 - Springer
Diabetic retinopathy screening involves assessment of the retina with attention to a series of
indicative features, ie, blood vessels, optic disk and macula etc. The detection of changes in …

Vessel tree reconstruction in thoracic CT scans with application to nodule detection

G Agam, SG Armato, C Wu - IEEE transactions on medical …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vessel tree reconstruction in volumetric data is a necessary prerequisite in various medical
imaging applications. Specifically, when considering the application of automated lung …

Retinal vessel tree segmentation using a deformable contour model

L Espona, MJ Carreira, MG Penedo… - … conference on pattern …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an improved version of our specific methodology to detect the vessel
tree in retinal angiographies. The automatic analysis of retinal vessel tree facilitates the …

A snake for retinal vessel segmentation

L Espona, MJ Carreira, M Ortega… - Iberian Conference on …, 2007 - Springer
This paper presents an innovative methodology to detect the vessel tree in retinal
angiographies. The automatic analysis of retinal vessel tree facilitates the computation of the …

An abdominal aortic aneurysm segmentation method: Level set with region and statistical information

F Zhuge, GD Rubin, S Sun, S Napel - Medical physics, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We present a system for segmenting the human aortic aneurysm in CT angiograms (CTA),
which, in turn, allows measurements of volume and morphological aspects useful for …