Segmentation of pulmonary vascular tree by incorporating vessel enhancement filter and variational region-growing.

CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrated feasibility of segmenting the pulmonary vessel effectively by incorporating vessel enhancement filters and the anisotropic diffusion filter with the variational region growing algorithm. Our method cannot only segment both large and peripheral vessels, but also distinguish the vessels from the adjacent tissues, especially the airway walls.
PMID: 30856156 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology - March 13, 2019 Category: Radiology Tags: J Xray Sci Technol Source Type: research