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the conclusion that our proposed method-C has a good effect on
blood vessel segmentation for MRA data. Several 3-D images
of the extracted vessel region obtained by method-C are shown
in Figure 13 and 14.
Figure 14. 3-D images of the extracted vessel (data-11)
4. CONCLUSIONS
We have developed a branch-based region growing algorithm
which is designed for blood vessel segmentation for MRA data.
We examined our segmentation algorithm and its appropriate
growing conditions for this method. In addition, to perform an
objective evaluation on the segmentation result, we developed
the evaluation method based on projection images. We applied
5 MRA data sets to our segmentation method, and we
confirmed the validity of our proposed method.
The biggest problem of our method is its processing time. It
takes about 5 minutes to get one segmentation result, which is
ten times longer than conventional region-growing method.
Most of the time is consumed for branch bifurcation detection.
It is necessary to optimize the processing for our method to be
practical.
The growing condition we have shown is only one instance
among many. Further discussion on the growing condition is
still required to utilize this method effectively and to improve
segmentation reliability.
Acknowledgements
This paper is supported in part by Informatics Research Centre
for Development of Knowledge Society Infrastructure and also
Intelligent Assistance in Diagnosis of Multi-dimensional
Medical Images in Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on
Priority Areas.
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