Title :
Multiscale vesselness based bilateral filter for blood vessel enhancement
Author :
Shi, Fei ; Yang, Jian
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Image Process. & Pattern Recognition, Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., Shanghai, China
fDate :
11/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A novel bilateral filter based method for vessel enhancement on medical images is presented. The proposed approach incorporates the multiscale vesselness measurement into the bilateral filter and thus can correctly remove noise while preserving distal vessel structures. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Keywords :
blood vessels; filtering theory; image denoising; image enhancement; medical image processing; bilateral filter; blood vessel enhancement; medical image; multiscale vesselness measurement; noise removal;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el.2009.1192
