Extraction et caractérisation de régions saines et pathologiques à partir de micro-tomographie RX du système vasculaire cérébral

In this paper, we consider X-ray micro-tomography representing the brain vascular network. We define the local vascular territories as the regions obtained after a watershed algorithm applied on the distance map. The obtained graph is then regularized by a Markov random field approach. The optimization is performed using a graph cut algorithm. We show that the resulting segmentation exhibits three classes corresponding to normal tissue, tumour and an intermediate region.

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