Skeleton-based fast, fully automated generation of vessel tree structure for clinical evaluation of blood vessel systems

This chapter focuses on skeleton detection for clinical evaluation of blood vessel systems. In clinical evaluation, there is a need for fast and accurate segmentation algorithms that can reliably p ...

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