Title :
Arteries tracking in simultaneous TOF-SWI MR images: image characteristics and preliminary results
Author :
Materka, Andrzej ; Strzelecki, Michal ; Szczypinski, Piotr ; Kocinski, Marek ; Deistung, Andreas ; Reichenbach, Jürgen R.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Electron., Tech. Univ. of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
Abstract :
The issue of vessel tracking in a novel, simultaneous ToF-SWI (time-of flight, susceptibility weighted imaging) 3D images is considered. Properties of the ToF-SWI images are discussed briefly. Results of arterial tree tracking by means of multiscale filtering, flod-fill and level set methods are presented and compared. Human brain and phantom MR images are used in the study. Topics of future research aimed at modeling and quantitative analysis of the vasculature, on the basis of segmentation of ToF-SWI, are addressed.
Keywords :
biomedical MRI; blood vessels; brain; image segmentation; medical image processing; phantoms; Human brain; TOF-SWI MR images; arteries tracking; image characteristics; image segmentation; multiscale filtering; phantom MR images; time of flight susceptibility weighted imaging; vessel tracking; Aerospace electronics; Angiography; Arteries; Biomedical imaging; Image analysis; Image segmentation; Imaging phantoms; Neoplasms; Physics; Veins;
Conference_Titel :
Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, 2009. ISPA 2009. Proceedings of 6th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Salzburg
Print_ISBN :
978-953-184-135-1
DOI :
10.1109/ISPA.2009.5297642
