Title :
Computing 3-D symbolic representation of blood vessels from stereo-microscopic images
Author :
Kim, Nak H. ; Bovik, Alan C.
Author_Institution :
Lab. for Vision Syst., Texas Univ., Austin, TX, USA
Abstract :
The authors consider the three-dimensional analysis of vacular networks from stereo-microscopic images. The principal concern is to describe their 3-D structure using a set of parametric space curves. This representation is computed by integrating monocular and binocular processing: the 2-D curve representation of blood vessels computed by monocular analysis is integrated with disparity data to yield a space curve representation. A connection graph is computed to indicate the connection among space curves. The efficacy of the approach was demonstrated using vascular cast images
Keywords :
biological techniques and instruments; blood; picture processing; 2-D curve representation; 3-D symbolic representation; binocular processing; blood vessels; connection graph; monocular analysis; parametric space curves; stereo-microscopic images; three-dimensional analysis; vacular networks; vascular cast images; Algorithm design and analysis; Biology computing; Biomedical imaging; Blood vessels; Computer networks; Filling; Image analysis; Interpolation; Machine vision; Shape measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1989. ICASSP-89., 1989 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Glasgow
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.1989.266723
