This paper describes a technique to represent relevant information of tree-like structures in a compact way. The technique is general. In the application described here, the images are obtained with contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). After segmentation, the vessels are reduced to fully reversible surface skeletons. Thereafter a novel approach to curve skeletonization based on the detection of junctions and curves in the surface skeleton is used. This procedure results in a good description of the tree structure of the vessels, where they are represented with a much smaller number of voxels. This representation is suitable for further quantitative analysis, e.g., measurements of vessel width and length.


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    Title :

    Representing volumetric vascular structures using curve skeletons


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    Publication date :

    2001-01-01


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    597692 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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