Comparison of three multiscale vessel enhancement filters intended for intracranial MRA: initial phantom results

Brian E. Chapman; Dennis L. Parker

doi:10.1117/12.431076

3 July 2001 Comparison of three multiscale vessel enhancement filters intended for intracranial MRA: initial phantom results

Brian E. Chapman, Dennis L. Parker

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Proceedings Volume 4322, Medical Imaging 2001: Image Processing; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.431076
Event: Medical Imaging 2001, 2001, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Vessel enhancement filtering has been proposed by a number of researchers as a preprocessing step to improve the vessel detail obtained in maximum intensity projection (MIP) images of 3D MRA data. In this paper we compare the performance of three proposed vessel enhancement filters as a function of contrast, signal-difference-to-noise ratio (SDNR) and vessel size. Filters were applied to simple digital phantoms where the signal, background and noise characteristics were known and could be precisely controlled.

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Brian E. Chapman and Dennis L. Parker "Comparison of three multiscale vessel enhancement filters intended for intracranial MRA: initial phantom results", Proc. SPIE 4322, Medical Imaging 2001: Image Processing, (3 July 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.431076

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