Automated detection of blood vessels using dynamic programming

  • Authors:
  • Peter J. Yim;Mark Kayton;Walter Miller;Steven Libutti;Peter L. Choyke

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Radiology MEB 404, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 1 Robert Wood Johnson Place #357, New Brunswick, NJ;Department of Radiology MEB 404, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 1 Robert Wood Johnson Place #357, New Brunswick, NJ;Department of Radiology MEB 404, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 1 Robert Wood Johnson Place #357, New Brunswick, NJ;Department of Radiology MEB 404, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 1 Robert Wood Johnson Place #357, New Brunswick, NJ;Department of Radiology MEB 404, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 1 Robert Wood Johnson Place #357, New Brunswick, NJ

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition Letters
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

An essential step in the characterization of angiography is the detection of the blood vessels. We propose an algorithm for detection of vessels in two-dimensional angiography from an acyclic graph that represents optimal paths within the image.