Paper Title
Extraction of Vessels From MRA Images: Concise Comparison, Review, Challenges, and Propose
Abstract
The automatic extraction of brain vessels from Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA) has found its
application in vascular disease diagnosis, endovascular operation and neurosurgical planning. In this paper we first present a
concise methodology, pros & cons of well-known vessel extraction techniques. The short survey of latest development in the
area of vessel extraction by using region growing algorithms is present. Then we detail the main challenges of vessel
extraction and segmentation area. Based on review and our experience in the area, we finally present enhancement in region
growing algorithm. Our proposed algorithm shows performance improvement as compare to traditional region growing
algorithm.
Key words- Image processing, segmentation, region growing, medical imaging, vessels, MRA