International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
A journal for interdisciplinary research, development and applications of image guided diagnosis and therapy.
Computational blood flow and vessel wall mechanics simulations for vascular structures are becoming an important research tool for patient-specific surgical planning and intervention. An important step in the modelling process for patient-specific simulations is the creation of the computational mesh based on the segmented geometry. Most known solutions either require a large amount of manual processing...
In this paper, we propose a fast multistage hybrid algorithm for 3D segmentation of medical images. We first employ a morphological recursive erosion operation to reduce the connectivity between the object to be segmented and its neighborhood; then the fast marching method is used to greatly accelerate the initial propagation of a surface front from the user defined seed structure to a surface close...