Oruganti, TanmayiLaufer, Jan GTreeby, Bradley2015-12-13February 39780819493507http://hdl.handle.net/1885/81421This paper investigates the application of the vessel filter proposed by Frangi et al., [MICCAI, LNCS vol. 1496, pp. 130-137, 1998] to photoacoustic images of the vasculature. The filter works by classifying the eigenvalue decomposition of the local HessiKeywords: Eigenvalue decomposition; Feature preservation; Hessian matrices; Photoacoustic image; Removing noise; Tubular structures; Vasculature; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Image resolution; Ultrasonics; Photons201310.1117/12.20059882016-02-24