Segmentation of artery areas on non-enhanced fresh blood imaging based on a dot enhancement filter and the 3-D region-growing method.
Akiyoshi YamamotoTakashi NishizakiHyoungseop KimJoo Kooi TanSeiji IshikawaPublished in: Artif. Life Robotics (2010)
Keyphrases
- region growing
- segmentation method
- segmentation algorithm
- vessel segmentation
- edge detection
- image segmentation
- filtering method
- watershed transform
- segmentation result
- seeded region growing
- region merging
- initial segmentation
- image analysis
- fuzzy connectedness
- watershed segmentation
- boundary estimation
- seed points
- energy functional
- energy function
- image processing
- image segmentation algorithm
- region segmentation
- edge information
- multiscale
- computer vision