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Cerebrovascular Segmentation Based on Edge Preserving Filters Technique in Magnetic Resonance Angiography Images: A Systematic Review
Nur Intan Raihana Ruhaiyem, Nur Atifah Hammade
Pages - 48 - 67     |    Revised - 30-09-2021     |    Published - 31-10-2021
Volume - 15   Issue - 4    |    Publication Date - October 2021  Table of Contents
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KEYWORDS
Cerebrovascular Segmentation, Time-of-flight Magnetic Resonance Angiography, Signal-to-noise Ratio, Vessel Enhancement, Cerebral Small Vessel Disease.
ABSTRACT
Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is an emerging magnetic resonance imaging method for the detection and diagnosis of cerebrovascular diseases including cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD). However, the challenges to extract cerebrovascular structures are recognised, especially from the time-of flight MRA (TOF-MRA) images due to the intricate vascular structures and inherent noise. This paper presents a comprehensive review on image processing pipeline which have been successfully applied on CSVD images such as Computed Tomography (CT) scan, Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA), Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA), Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA), and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), review on various denoising filters in CSVD images such as Nonlocal Mean (NLM) filter, Multiscale filter, Anisotropic Diffusion filter (ADF), Bilateral filter (BF), Smoothing filter, 3D Steerable filter, Moving Average filter, Trilateral filter, Wiener filter, Blockmatching and 3D filtering (BM3D), Non-linear quasi-Newton method (L-BFGS), and Histogram Equalization (HE). This review also features edge preserving filter (EPF) techniques to reduce noises while preserving the edges from TOF-MRA images including ADF, BF, NMF, Mean Shift filter (MSF), and Sigma filter (SF).
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Dr. Nur Intan Raihana Ruhaiyem
School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, USM, 11800, Penang - Malaysia
intanraihana@usm.my
Miss Nur Atifah Hammade
School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, USM, 11800, Penang - Malaysia


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