Tracing the vasculature in microscopy images
I have implemented a scale-space tracing algorithm. The on-line image-processing algorithm traces the vessels of the microvasculature that surrounds a tumour. The algorithm is fully automatic and uses a scale space approach to detect the most relevant vessels. The intensity of the image pixels is considered to be analogous to the topographical altitude on a map and then the vessels become the equivalent of a ridge. The scale space approach will apply filters to the image to successively blur it and thus erase detail in order to detect the ridges of different widths.
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