# Artery segmentation

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/artery-segmentation/6025>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** segmentation\
**Created:** [March 5, 2019, 1:16pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/artery-segmentation/6025 "2019-03-05T13:16:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![prorai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e8c25b/32.png) [@prorai](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/prorai)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 1:16pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/artery-segmentation/6025/1 "2019-03-05T13:16:37Z")

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which will be the best method/module to make artery segmentation from any body part?

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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 6:09pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/artery-segmentation/6025/2 "2019-03-05T18:09:51Z")

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Thresholding and Fast Marching effects (in SegmentEditorExtraEffects extension) work well for simple cases: large-diameter vessels with high contrast compared to surrounding tissues.