Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
504-03-002 ISMRM Abstract

Automatic and robust 3D vessel segmentation in time-of-flight magnetic resonance images

Primary: Neuro - Blood Vessels
Secondary: Analysis Methods - Segmentation and Detection
504-03-002 · Cutting-Edge Techniques for Intracranial Artery Visualization · Wednesday, 13 May, 1:40 PM–3:30 PM · Ballroom East
Keywords: Blood vessels Segmentation Automated intracranial vessel segmentation TOF UNet
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Chiara Mauri 1, Allison McKenzie2, Emma Yeon2, Cole Analoro2, Xiangrui Zeng1, Divya Varadarajan, Jonathan R Polimeni3,4,5, Yaël Balbastre6, Malte Hoffmann1, Bruce Fischl1
1Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States of America
2Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, United States of America
3Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America
4Richard M. Lucas Center for Imaging, Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America
5Department of Radiology, Stanford Medicine, Stanford, United States of America
6Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Presenting Author: Chiara Mauri

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