Cerebral vessel enhancement using bilateral and Hessian-based filter

Vessel enhancement in magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is an important preprocessing step for stroke surgical planning and further processing. Bilateral filter has been widely used to reduce noise due to its ability for smoothing an image and preserve the edges. It suffers a drawback of over smo...

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Main Authors: Ajam, A., Aziz, A.A., Asirvadam, V.S., Izhar, L.I., Muda, S.
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Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas
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Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2017
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spelling utp-eprints.202352018-04-22T14:46:38Z Cerebral vessel enhancement using bilateral and Hessian-based filter Ajam, A. Aziz, A.A. Asirvadam, V.S. Izhar, L.I. Muda, S. Vessel enhancement in magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is an important preprocessing step for stroke surgical planning and further processing. Bilateral filter has been widely used to reduce noise due to its ability for smoothing an image and preserve the edges. It suffers a drawback of over smoothing that leads to discontinuity of blood vessels when applied to MRA image. Hessian-based filter is known to have the ability of enhancing the vessels and preserving the geometrical structure. This paper presents the vessel enhancement technique which combines bilateral and Hessian-based filters to exploit the advantages of them. The bilateral filtered images show that weighted bilateral filter can reduce more noise when comparing the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) value. Then, Hessian-based filter is performed on several types of preprocessed images to compare the performance of this technique on different types of images. Our method shows a promising result in suppressing the noise that is enhanced by Hessian-based filter. © 2016 IEEE. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2017 Article PeerReviewed https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85012027026&doi=10.1109%2fICIAS.2016.7824109&partnerID=40&md5=4a23734f77a49271b223313fc19cac3f Ajam, A. and Aziz, A.A. and Asirvadam, V.S. and Izhar, L.I. and Muda, S. (2017) Cerebral vessel enhancement using bilateral and Hessian-based filter. International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems, ICIAS 2016 . http://eprints.utp.edu.my/20235/
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description Vessel enhancement in magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is an important preprocessing step for stroke surgical planning and further processing. Bilateral filter has been widely used to reduce noise due to its ability for smoothing an image and preserve the edges. It suffers a drawback of over smoothing that leads to discontinuity of blood vessels when applied to MRA image. Hessian-based filter is known to have the ability of enhancing the vessels and preserving the geometrical structure. This paper presents the vessel enhancement technique which combines bilateral and Hessian-based filters to exploit the advantages of them. The bilateral filtered images show that weighted bilateral filter can reduce more noise when comparing the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) value. Then, Hessian-based filter is performed on several types of preprocessed images to compare the performance of this technique on different types of images. Our method shows a promising result in suppressing the noise that is enhanced by Hessian-based filter. © 2016 IEEE.
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author Ajam, A.
Aziz, A.A.
Asirvadam, V.S.
Izhar, L.I.
Muda, S.
spellingShingle Ajam, A.
Aziz, A.A.
Asirvadam, V.S.
Izhar, L.I.
Muda, S.
Cerebral vessel enhancement using bilateral and Hessian-based filter
author_sort Ajam, A.
title Cerebral vessel enhancement using bilateral and Hessian-based filter
title_short Cerebral vessel enhancement using bilateral and Hessian-based filter
title_full Cerebral vessel enhancement using bilateral and Hessian-based filter
title_fullStr Cerebral vessel enhancement using bilateral and Hessian-based filter
title_full_unstemmed Cerebral vessel enhancement using bilateral and Hessian-based filter
title_sort cerebral vessel enhancement using bilateral and hessian-based filter
publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
publishDate 2017
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