Biomedical Engineering Reference
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Figure 8.
Centerline extraction and optimal path finding; (a) original 2D binary image;
(b) centerline extracted using distance information; (c) inverse of 3D distance map corre-
sponding to the segmented coronary artery from sheep heart in Figure 7c; (d) 3D centerline
extracted from the inverted distance map; (e) original angiographic image; (f) path found
by using gray value as cost. See attached CD for color version.
