Analysis of blood vessel topology by cubical homology
Niethammer, M.; Stein, A.N.; Kalies, W.D.; Pilarczyk, P.; Mischaikow, K.; Tannenbaum, A.
Image Processing. 2002. Proceedings. 2002 International Conference on
Volume 2, Issue , 2002 Page(s): II-969 - II-972 vol.2
Digital Object Identifier   10.1109/ICIP.2002.1040114
Summary:We segment and topologically classify brain vessel data obtained from magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). The segmentation is done adaptively and the classification by means of cubical homology, i.e. the computation of homology groups. In this way the number of connected components; (measured by H₀), the tunnels (given by H₁) and the voids (given by H₂) are determined, resulting in a topological characterization of the blood vessels.

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