# Vmtk Vesselness Filtering without seed point?

**URL:** https://discourse.slicer.org/t/vmtk-vesselness-filtering-without-seed-point/8468
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** segmentation, vmtk, vessels
**Created:** [September 17, 2019, 12:45pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/vmtk-vesselness-filtering-without-seed-point/8468 "2019-09-17T12:45:50Z")
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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: [September 17, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/vmtk-vesselness-filtering-without-seed-point/8468/4 "2019-09-17T13:48:50Z")

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It is a Python scripted module, so instead of old-school and platform-dependent bash/batch scripting, you can write a short Python script or [Jupyter notebook](https://github.com/Slicer/SlicerJupyter) to iterate through your data sets.

You can run vessel filtering by calling [computeVesselnessVolume method](https://github.com/vmtk/SlicerExtension-VMTK/blob/master/VesselnessFiltering/VesselnessFiltering.py#L460) of the VesselnessFiltering module logic:

```python
import VesselnessFiltering
vfl=VesselnessFiltering.VesselnessFilteringLogic()
vfl.computeVesselnessVolume(inputVolumeNode, outputVolumeNode, minimumDiameterMm=0.2, maximumDiameterMm=25, alpha=0.3, beta=0.3, contrastMeasure=150)

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