Blood vessel segmentation for head MRA using branch-based region growing.
Hiroyuki SekiguchiNaozo SugimotoShigeru EihoTakashi HanakawaShin-ichi UrayamaPublished in: Systems and Computers in Japan (2005)
Keyphrases
- region growing
- blood vessels
- vessel segmentation
- magnetic resonance angiography
- segmentation method
- image segmentation
- segmentation algorithm
- low contrast
- brain mri
- color image segmentation
- retinal images
- edge detection
- edge information
- region merging
- seeded region growing
- carotid artery
- segmentation result
- homogeneous regions
- image segmentation algorithm
- vessel detection
- watershed transform
- region competition
- seed points
- active contour model
- active contours
- initial segmentation
- region of interest
- automatic segmentation
- level set
- optic disc
- seed selection
- som neural network
- segmented images
- final segmentation
- fuzzy connectedness
- accurate segmentation