Reuzé P, Coatrieux J L, Luo L M, Dillenseger J L
Laboratoire Traitement du Signal et de l'Image Campus de Beaulieu, Université de Rennes I, 35042 Rennes France.
Vision and Image Processing Laboratory Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
Technol Health Care. 1993 Jan 1;1(2):181-8. doi: 10.3233/THC-1993-1209.
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.