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- Title
Near-Infrared Blood Vessel Image Segmentation Using Background Subtraction and Improved Mathematical Morphology.
- Authors
Li, Ling; Liu, Haoting; Li, Qing; Tian, Zhen; Li, Yajie; Geng, Wenjia; Wang, Song
- Abstract
The precise display of blood vessel information for doctors is crucial. This is not only true for facilitating intravenous injections, but also for the diagnosis and analysis of diseases. Currently, infrared cameras can be used to capture images of superficial blood vessels. However, their imaging quality always has the problems of noises, breaks, and uneven vascular information. In order to overcome these problems, this paper proposes an image segmentation algorithm based on the background subtraction and improved mathematical morphology. The algorithm regards the image as a superposition of blood vessels into the background, removes the noise by calculating the size of connected domains, achieves uniform blood vessel width, and smooths edges that reflect the actual blood vessel state. The algorithm is evaluated subjectively and objectively in this paper to provide a basis for vascular image quality assessment. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can effectively extract accurate and clear vascular information.
- Subjects
MATHEMATICAL morphology; BLOOD vessels; INFRARED cameras; INTRAVENOUS injections; IMAGE segmentation; SUBTRACTION (Mathematics); MAGNETIC resonance angiography; NOISE control
- Publication
Bioengineering (Basel), 2023, Vol 10, Issue 6, p726
- ISSN
2306-5354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/bioengineering10060726