Design of Steerable Filters for Feature Detection Using Canny-Like Criteria

@eriecomoellago @NUFeinbergMed @UTSWNews Existing software only looks for a single direction or orientation in order to trace these fibers or tubes. However, at intersections, these structures may be bi- or tri- or even multi-oriented. It turns out that…

@NUFeinbergMed @UTSWNews Many filament segmentation packages detect a single orientation per pixel, but this leads to an incomplete segmentation near true junctions or overlapping filaments. For example, this example is using Jacob and Unser (2004) htt…