Input: Initial vessel layer image Iiv (a frame of S from Algorithm 1). |
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Otsu threshold all Iivs to get binary mask MOs; |
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Calculate the Radon-Like features of Iiv, the resulted RLF image is denoted by Riv; |
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Phansalkar threshold Riv to get mask MP; |
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Remove regions smaller than a fixed size ts, from MP; |
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Take the foreground pixels in MP as seeds, do conditional dilation in MO, the result mask image is denoted by Mc; |
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Merge the foreground regions in MP and Mc, together to get the final mask image MV. |
Output: Binary vessel mask image, MV. |