Research Article

2D Fast Vessel Visualization Using a Vessel Wall Mask Guiding Fine Vessel Detection

Table 1

Final detection time to reliability cost comparison between (A) full scan image detection w/o use of VM, (B) VM-guided scan, (C) CL-based vessel detection, and (D) Region growing (RG) with 3 points (start-intermediate-end) per vessel peripheral or main vessel segment ( angles scales).

ABCD

3,5860/.250.0645/.272,930/0.17031.450/0.1025
3.7373/.350.0678/0.0911.8686/0.2210.525/0.021
4.2423/.370.0327/0.38212.100/0.1345.789/0.1177
2.2557/.270.0671/0.14861.120/0.2442.678/0.0884
4.0721/0.39500.0345/0.27992.030/0.23171.789/0.1322
2.2868/0.30210.0893/0.08831.100/0.1046456/0.0865
3.4912/0.28960.0569/0.32041.740/0.11921.679/0.1310
2,5870/0.39710.0895/0.20822.835/0.21431.456/0.0616