Vascular Extraction Using MRA Statistics and Gradient Information

Figure 4

Intensity distribution fitting plots. (a) Rayleigh Gaussian distributions (dot blue lines), the normalized intensity frequency histogram (solid red line) and the fitting result by using the proposed statistical model (solid cyan line). (b) Traditional statistical method. (c) Gradient clustering with -means approach based on traditional statistical method.

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