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Illustration of the compartment orientation scheme at the initialization of the region-growing procedure. (a) The compartment seeded at point A is oriented so that its shortest axis corresponded to the surface normal of an ellipsoid passing through the nipple and the seed point A. The initial distribution of the compartments is illustrated in (b) coronal and (c) vertical phantom sections.
