Active Surfaces for Cardiac Vessel Segmentation

Studien-/Diplomarbeit

Active contours have been widely used in image processing applications. Typical roadblocks to consistent performance include limited capture range, noise sensivity and poor convergence to concavities. Vector Field Convolution(VCF) has been proposed as a new external force for active contours to address these problems.

In this work, a 3D active surface model based on VCF shall be implemented in order to segment cardiac vessel surfaces from 3D contrast enhanced MSCT datasets. Furthermore, the quality of the segmentation shall be evaluated. As a Diploma-/Master-Thesis the portability to current graphics hardware (e.g. implementation in CUDA) should be investigated.

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