18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'06) Volume 3
Probabilistic Modeling of Blood Vessels for Segmenting MRA Images
Hong Kong
August 20-August 24
ISBN: 0-7695-2521-0
Ayman El-Baz, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
Aly Farag, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
A new physically justified adaptive probabilistic model of blood vessels on magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) images is proposed. The model accounts for both laminar (for normal subjects) and turbulent blood flow (in abnormal cases like anemia or stenosis) and results in a fast algorithm for extracting a 3D cerebrovascular system from the MRA data. Experiments with real data sets confirm the high accuracy of the proposed approach.
Citation:
Ayman El-Baz, Aly Farag, Georgy Gimel?farb, Mohamed A. El-Ghar, Tarek Eldiasty, "Probabilistic Modeling of Blood Vessels for Segmenting MRA Images," icpr, vol. 3, pp.917-920, 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'06) Volume 3, 2006