Systems and methods for performing vessel segmentation from flow data representative of flow within a vessel

Abstract

The invention generally provides systems and methods for performing vessel segmentation from flow data, such as but not limited to 4D flow Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data. In certain aspects, the systems and methods of the invention may involve receiving flow data representative of flow in a vessel (such as 4D MRI flow data); identifying net flow effects in the flow data (such as 4D MRI flow data) according to a standardized difference of means (SDM) velocity that involves quantifying a ratio between net flow and observed flow pulsatility in each voxel of the received flow data (such as 4D MRI flow data); and identifying voxels with higher SDM velocity values than stationary tissue voxels, thereby performing vessel segmentation from flow data (such as 4D MRI flow data).

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