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The estimation of the function g must reflect the probability that the “sprouts” of the different incomplete subtrees Bi reach and supply a liver voxel v. Measures for this “reachability” (illustrated by arrows d1 , . . , d4 in Fig. 26) can be expressed by a metric. A voxel v is then assigned to that branch Bi which has the shortest distance with respect to this metric. The choice of such a metric is difficult since the blood supply is realized by complex branching structures, whose formation process is not fully understood.
N}, which assigns to each liver voxel v ∈ L the index of the main branch Bi supplying it. The set of all voxels supplied by this branch represents the corresponding liver territory and is denoted by Si . The estimation of the function g must reflect the probability that the “sprouts” of the different incomplete subtrees Bi reach and supply a liver voxel v. Measures for this “reachability” (illustrated by arrows d1 , . . , d4 in Fig. 26) can be expressed by a metric. A voxel v is then assigned to that branch Bi which has the shortest distance with respect to this metric.
Top: Transition at branching. Skeleton (left), convolved with original filter (middle), convolved with modified filter (right). Bottom: Side view. Bulging (left) is avoided with the modified filter (right). Bulging. Due to the superposition property of the convolution product, convolution surfaces are bulge-free for non-branching line segment skeletons. However, they do exhibit bulges at branchings. g. an aneurysm. Even though model-based visualization methods are not targeted at supporting vascular diagnostics, this drawback should be minimized.