Title
A generative MRF approach for automatic 3D segmentation of cerebral vasculature from 7 Tesla MRA images
Abstract
Segmentation of 3D cerebral vasculature is important for clinical diagnosis. However, many relevant thin vessels are not visible in 1.5T and 3T MRA. With the recent introduction of 7T MRA, images of higher resolution can be acquired, which contain much more thin vessels. We propose a fully automatic hybrid approach for segmenting vessels from 7T MRA images of the human cerebrovascular system. First, thick vessels and most parts of thin vessels are segmented using a 3D model-based approach and, second, missing parts in regions with low image contrast are segmented using a generative Markov random field approach. The performance of the approach has been evaluated using real 3D 7T MRA images.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/ISBI.2011.5872813
ISBI
Keywords
Field
DocType
mrf approach,mra images,human cerebrovascular system,cerebral vasculature,image resolution,hybrid approach,blood vessels,image segmentation,automatic 3d segmentation,cardiovascular system,biomedical mri,generative markov random field approach,3d cerebral vasculature,generative markov random field,markov processes,7t mra,vessels,medical image processing,3d model-based approach,magnetic resonance,solid modeling,biomedical imaging
Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Markov random field,Medical imaging,Computer science,Segmentation,Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence,Solid modeling,Clinical diagnosis,Cerebral circulation,Image resolution
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1945-7928 E-ISBN : 978-1-4244-4128-0
978-1-4244-4128-0
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
7
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wei Liao150.78
Karl Rohr234048.69
Chang-Ki Kang3263.98
Zang-Hee Cho47413.22
Stefan Wörz525632.58