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Presentation 2010-01-29 09:30
Blood Vessel Segmentation using Intensity Structures Analysis based on Spherical Harmonic Function
Yukitaka Nimura (Nagoya Univ.), Takayuki Kitasaka (Aichi Inst. of Tech.), Kensaku Mori (Nagoya Univ.) MI2009-120
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(in English) Blood vessel is one of the important organ in diagnosis, therapy and surgery. For decision of the treatment strategy, grading of stenoses is important part in diagnosis of vascular disease such as arterial occlusive disease or thromboembolism. It is also important to understand the vasculature in minimally invasive surgery such as laparoscopic surgery or natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery. Precise segmentation and recognition of blood vessel regions are indispensable tasks in medical image processing systems. However, previous methods cannot extract thin blood vessel regions precisely. This paper presents a novel blood vessel segmentation method that can extract thin blood vessels with suppressing false positives. The proposed method utilizes not only Hessian analysis but also spherical harmonic function. The experimental result shows thin blood vessel (0.5mm in diameter, almost same as voxel spacing) can be extracted finely by the proposed method.
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(in English) blood vessel segmentation / spherical harmonic function / Hessian analysis / / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 109, no. 407, MI2009-120, pp. 241-246, Jan. 2010.
Paper # MI2009-120 
Date of Issue 2010-01-21 (MI) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Committee MI  
Conference Date 2010-01-28 - 2010-01-29 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Naha-Bunka-Tenbusu 
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Topics (in English) Medical Imaging 
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Conference Code 2010-01-MI 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) Blood Vessel Segmentation using Intensity Structures Analysis based on Spherical Harmonic Function 
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Keyword(2) spherical harmonic function  
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1st Author's Name Yukitaka Nimura  
1st Author's Affiliation Nagoya University (Nagoya Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Takayuki Kitasaka  
2nd Author's Affiliation Aichi Institute of Technology (Aichi Inst. of Tech.)
3rd Author's Name Kensaku Mori  
3rd Author's Affiliation Nagoya University (Nagoya Univ.)
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Date Time 2010-01-29 09:30:00 
Presentation Time 10 minutes 
Registration for MI 
Paper # MI2009-120 
Volume (vol) vol.109 
Number (no) no.407 
Page pp.241-246 
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Date of Issue 2010-01-21 (MI) 


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