In this work a minimum cost path approach is adopted to extract coronary artery centerlines from CTA data. The algorithm depends on the manual definition of the start and end point of the vessel. The cost image used in the minimal cost path approach is based [...]

In this paper the Coronary Artery Tracking competition, which was part of the workshop: "3D Segmentation in the Clinic: A Grand Challenge II" is described. This workshopwas held during the 2008 Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention [...]