Automatic segmentation method which divides a cerebral artery tree in time-of-flight MR-angiography into artery segments.
Akihiro TakemuraMasayuki SuzukiHajime HarauchiYusuke OkumuraTokuo UmedaPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2006)
Keyphrases
- segmentation method
- time of flight
- coronary artery
- blood flow
- x ray
- region growing
- image segmentation
- patient specific
- active contour model
- depth information
- depth images
- infrared
- magnetic resonance
- high accuracy
- active contours
- energy function
- superpixels
- depth map
- object segmentation
- carotid artery
- segmentation algorithm
- high resolution
- edge detection
- range data
- depth data
- machine learning
- contrast enhanced
- segmentation result
- imaging modalities
- human brain
- shape prior