A Coronary Artery Segmentation Method Based on Graph Cuts and MultiScale Analysis

In this paper we propose a new multi-scale fully automatic algorithm based on Graph cuts for vessel extraction. In fact, we combine vesselness, geodesic paths, a multi-scale edgeness map and the directional information for vessel tracking in order to personalize the Graph cuts approach to the segmentation of tubular structures.

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