Hello Everyone,
I’ve a 3D volume and I am using the Margin effect in Segment editor to filter vessels that have
a thickness less than say 10 microns
10 micron is set in Margin tab
select shrink and hit apply
select grow and hit apply
I’d like to ask for suggestion on how to use Margin effect to filter vessels that fall in a certain range
e.g. 5 - 10 microns.
Here, I would like to know if it’s possible to do the above by directly specifying the range (5-10).
If not, I think I should be following the same steps mentioned above to filter out 5 microns from the above segment and subtract using logical operators.
Deepa, if the method you described would retain vessels with a diameter 10 microns or larger.
Because if you shrink 10 micron, and the segment is only 7 micron, it will disappear. Because it has disappeared, grow operation cannot bring it back. Let’s say this is your segment_1
If you repeat this operation on a new segment (Segment_2) with 5 micron, then that will retain vessels that 5 or larger micron. If you subtract the Segment_1 from Segment_2 (logical operations0, you will get what you want (vessels that are larger than 5 but less than 10 micron in diameter). For this to work, you should allow for overlap under the Masking section when doing both segmentations.
However, due to the smoothing there might be some left of over from Segment_1. Remove small islands might work on the resultant segment, or others might have better suggestions.
I could do the above. I would like to check the thickness of the final segment that I have.
Could you please suggest if I can use any plugin that is already available in Slicer to check the distribution of vessel thickness in Segment_final?
This would help me in cross-checking what I have done.