Cerebral vessel enhancement using bilateral and Hessian-based filter

• Main Authors: Ajam, A., Aziz, A.A., Asirvadam, V.S., Izhar, L.I., Muda, S.
• Format: Article
• Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2017
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85012027026&doi=10.1109%2fICIAS.2016.7824109&partnerID=40&md5=4a23734f77a49271b223313fc19cac3f; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/20235/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas

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...