History
The notion of ridges and valleys in digital images was introduced by Haralick in 1983 and by Crowley concerning difference of Gaussians pyramids in 1984. The application of ridge descriptors to medical image analysis has been extensively studied by Pizer and his co-workers resulting in their notion of M-reps. Ridge detection has also been furthered by Lindeberg with the introduction of -normalized derivatives and scale-space ridges defined from local maximization of the appropriately normalized main principal curvature of the Hessian matrix (or other measures of ridge strength) over space and over scale. These notions have later been developed with application to road extraction by Steger et al. and to blood vessel segmentation by Frangi et al. as well as to the detection of curvilinear and tubular structures by Sato et al. and Krissian et al. A review of several of the classical ridge definitions at a fixed scale including relations between them has been given by Koenderink and van Doorn. A review of vessel extraction techniques has been presented by Kirbas and Quek.
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