Kedar Anil Patwardhan,Sandeep N. Gupta,David M. Mills,Aaron M. Dentinger,Yongjian Yu
申请号：
US13910620
公开号：
US08942423B2
申请日:
2013.06.05
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2015
代理人:
摘要：
In one embodiment, a method of detecting centerline of a vessel is provided. The method comprises steps of acquiring a 3D image volume, initializing a centerline, initializing a Kalman filter, predicting a next center point using the Kalman filter, checking validity of the prediction made using the Kalman filter, performing template matching, updating the Kalman filter based on the template matching and repeating the steps of predicting, checking, performing, and updating for a predetermined number of times. Methods of automatic vessel segmentation and temporal tracking of the segmented vessel is further described with reference to the method of detecting centerline.
