An Improved Fuzzy Connectedness Method for Automatic Three-Dimensional Liver Vessel Segmentation in CT Images

Figure 5

Comparison of the improved vesselness filter with the Jerman’s vesselness filter. (a)–(c) The original CT images. (d)–(f) The vesselness images by using the Jerman’s vesselness filtering to (a)–(c), respectively. (g)–(i) The vesselness images by using the improved vesselness filtering to (a)–(c), respectively.

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