SCI TV - Effective visualization of complex vascular structures

Effective visualization of vascular structures is critical for diagnosis, surgical planning as well as treatment evaluation. In this talk, I will introduce an algorithm for vessel detection that examines the intensity profile around each voxel in an angiographic image and determines the likelihood that any given voxel belongs to a vessel; we term this the "vesselness coefficient" of the voxel. Our results show that our algorithm works particularly well for visualizing branch points in vessels.