Precise renal artery segmentation for estimation of renal vascular dominant regions.
Chenglong WangMitsuru KagajoYoshihiko NakamuraMasahiro OdaYasushi YoshinoTokunori YamamotoKensaku MoriPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2016)
Keyphrases
- vessel segmentation
- using artificial neural networks
- segmented images
- region segmentation
- image regions
- homogeneous regions
- region merging
- watershed algorithm
- segmentation algorithm
- tubular structures
- region growing
- segmentation scheme
- region matching
- medical data
- blood flow
- segmentation method
- segmenting images
- accurate segmentation
- textured regions
- optical flow estimation
- image segmentations
- multiscale
- carotid artery
- figure ground
- connected regions
- automatically segmented
- image segmentation
- medical images
- level set
- segmentation result
- outdoor scenes
- energy function
- watershed segmentation
- spatial coherence
- blood vessels
- initial segmentation
- boundary information
- segmented regions
- object segmentation
- salient regions
- intensity distribution
- piecewise constant
- foreground and background
- shape prior
- image pixels
- seeded region growing
- fully automatic
- partial volume
- intensity images
- edge detection
- image segments
- optical flow
- input image
- background subtraction
- watershed transform