98. Inferring Vascular Structure from 2D and 3D Imagery
Abhir Bhalerao5
, Elke Thönnes6
, Wilfrid Kendall6
and Roland Wilson5 
| (5) |
Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK |
| (6) |
Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, UK |
Abstract
We describe a method for inferring vascular (tree-like) structures from 2D and 3D imagery. A Bayesian formulation is used
to make effective use of prior knowledge of likely tree structures with the observed being modelled locally with intensity
profiles as being Gaussian. The local feature models are estimated by combination of a multiresolution, windowed Fourier approach
followed by an iterative, minimum meansquare estimation, which is both computationally efficient and robust. A Markov Chain
Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm is employed to produce approximate samples from the posterior distribution given the feature
model estimates. We present results of the multiresolution parameter estimation on representative 2D and 3D data, and show
preliminary results of our implementation of the MCMC algorithm 1.
This project is funded by UK EPSRC
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