Vascular diseases are among the most important public health problems in developed
countries. Given the size and complexity of modern angiographic acquisitions, segmentation …

Scanning technologies based on X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) have been widely used
in many scientific fields including medicine, nanosciences and materials research …

The collateral score is an important biomarker in decision making for endovascular
treatment (EVT) of patients with ischemic stroke. The existing collateral grading systems are …

Purpose: The application and large‐scale evaluation of minimum cost path approaches for
coronary centerline extraction from computed tomography coronary angiography (CTCA) …

A robust method is presented for the segmentation of the full cerebral vasculature in 4-
dimensional (4D) computed tomography (CT). The method consists of candidate vessel …

Considering vessel segmentation as an iterative tracking process, we propose a new
Bayesian tracking algorithm based on particle filters for the delineation of coronary arteries …

This paper presents a new method to extract tubular structures from bi-dimensional images.
The core of the proposed algorithm is the computation of geodesic curves over a four …

As a potential biomarker for women's cardiovascular and chronic kidney diseases, breast
arterial calcification (BAC) in mammography has become an emerging research topic in …

Extraction of a proper map from the vessel paths in the retinal images is a prerequisite for
many applications such as identification. In this paper, we present a new approach based on …

This paper presents a new automatic region-growing method for vessel segmentation in two-
dimensional X-ray coronary angiography images. The method consists of two parts: the …