A 3-D moment based approach for blood vessel detection and quantification in MRA

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Reuzé, P.^{a; *} | Coatrieux, J.L.^a | Luo, L.M.^b | Dillenseger, J.L.^b

Affiliations: [a] Laboratoire Traitement du Signal et de l'Image Campus de Beaulieu, Université de Rennes I, 35042 Rennes France | [b] Vision and Image Processing Laboratory Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author.

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.

Keywords: Magnetic resonance angiography, Detection, Quantification, Tracking, Rendering

DOI: 10.3233/THC-1993-1209

Journal: Technology and Health Care, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 181-188, 1993