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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/TMI.2014.2364404
IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging
Keywords
Field
DocType
topology,monte carlo methods,network topology
ENCODE,Computer vision,Monte Carlo method,Computer science,Network topology,Artificial intelligence
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
34
2
0278-0062
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.41
33
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Henrik Skibbe130.41
Marco Reisert230.41
Shin-ichi Maeda3268.11
Masanori Koyama42087.80
Shigeyuki Oba530.41
Kei Ito630.41
Shin Ishii723934.39