[IPOL announce] new article: OpenCCO: An Implementation of Constrained Constructive Optimization for Generating 2D and 3D Vascular Trees

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A new article is available in IPOL: https://www.ipol.im/pub/art/2023/477/

Bertrand Kerautret, Phuc Ngo, Nicolas Passat, Hugues Talbot, and Clara 
Jaquet,
OpenCCO: An Implementation of Constrained Constructive Optimization for 
Generating 2D and 3D Vascular Trees,
Image Processing On Line, 13 (2023), pp. 258–279.
https://doi.org/10.5201/ipol.2023.477

Abstract
In this article, we focus on the algorithm called CCO (Constrained 
Constructive Optimization), initially proposed by Schreiner and Buxbaum 
[Computer-Optimization of Vascular Trees, IEEE Transactions on 
Biomedical Engineering, 40, 1993] and further extended by Karch et al. 
[A Three-Dimensional Model for Arterial Tree Representation, Generated 
by Constrained Constructive Optimization, Computers in Biology and 
Medicine, 29, 1999]. This algorithm can be considered as one of the gold 
standards for vascular tree structure generation. Modeling and/or 
simulating the morphology of vascular networks is a challenging but 
crucial task that can have a strong impact on different applications 
such as fluid simulation or learning processes related to image 
segmentation. Various implementations of CCO were proposed over the last 
years. However, to the best of our knowledge, there does not exist any 
open-source version that faithfully follows the native CCO algorithm. 
Our purpose is to propose such an implementation both in 2D and 3D.