title: A 3-D moment based approach for blood vessel detection and quantification in MRA.
abstract: This paper describes a new method for the three-dimensional (3-D) tracking and the quantification of blood vessels from magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). The approach is based on 3-D geometrical moments and consists of the following steps: (1) interactive selection of 3-D seed points; (2) automatic tracking of the vessels; (3) local computation of both diameter and orientation; (4) rendering of the vessels. This detection and estimation scheme has been validated on simulated and real data.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Traitement du Signal et de l'Image Campus de Beaulieu, Université de Rennes I, 35042 Rennes France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Reuzé
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Traitement du Signal et de l'Image Campus de Beaulieu, Université de Rennes I, 35042 Rennes France.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Coatrieux
authors.affiliation: Vision and Image Processing Laboratory Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.affiliation: Vision and Image Processing Laboratory Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Dillenseger
keywords: Detection; Magnetic resonance angiography; Quantification; Rendering; Tracking