This demo performs the vesselness measurement using the ring pattern detector (RPD) for enhancement of vessels in medical images.
The file: demo_vesselness_RPD_cartesian.m contains what is needed to run the method with a small test image (example.mat).
If you use this code, please cite the paper:
R. Moreno, Ö. Smedby "Gradient-based enhancement of tubular structures in medical images". Medical Image Analysis 2015;26(1):19-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2015.07.001
The implementation of RPD in this repository is based on the paper:
R Moreno, Ö Smedby "Vesselness estimation through higher-order orientation tensors" Proc. ISBI 2016, pp. 1139-42. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2016.7493467
Rodrigo Moreno e-mail: rodmore@kth.se