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Wu et al. BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010, 9:75 /content/9/1/75 RESEARCH Open Access Scale-adaptive surface modeling of vascular structures 1,2* 1 1 1,2 1,2 1,2 Jianhuang Wu , Mingqiang Wei , Yonghong Li , Xin Ma , Fucang Jia , Qingmao Hu * Correspondence: jh.wu@ Abstract 1Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Background: The effective geometric modeling of vascular structures is crucial for Sciences, Shenzhen, PR China diagnosis, therapy planning and medical education. These applications require good balance with respect to surface smoothness, surface accuracy, triangle quality and surface size. Methods: Our method first extracts the vascular boundary voxels from the segmentation result, and utilizes these voxels to build a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud whose normal vectors are estimated via covariance analysis. Then a 3D implicit indicator function is computed from the oriented 3D point cloud by solving a Poisson equation. Finally the vessel surface is generated by a proposed adaptive polygonization algorithm for explicit 3D visualization. Results: Experiments carried out on several typical vascular structures demonstrate that the presented method yields both a smooth morphologically correct and a topologically pres