title: Efficient Monte Carlo image analysis for the location of vascular entity.
abstract: Tubular shaped networks appear not only in medical images like X-ray-, time-of-flight MRI- or CT-angiograms but also in microscopic images of neuronal networks. We present EMILOVE (Efficient Monte-carlo Image-analysis for the Location Of Vascular Entity), a novel modeling algorithm for tubular networks in biomedical images. The model is constructed using tablet shaped particles and edges connecting them. The particles encode the intrinsic information of tubular structure, including position, scale and orientation. The edges connecting the particles determine the topology of the networks. For simulated data, EMILOVE was able to accurately extract the tubular network. EMILOVE showed high performance in real data as well; it successfully modeled vascular networks in real cerebral X-ray and time-of-flight MRI angiograms. We also show some promising, preliminary results on microscopic images of neurons.
authors.forename: Henrik
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Skibbe
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Reisert
authors.forename: Shin-ichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Maeda
authors.forename: Masanori
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Koyama
authors.forename: Shigeyuki
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Oba
authors.forename: Kei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: Shin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ishii
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000792:Angiography / Q000379:methods*; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D009474:Neurons