Heuristically Driven Front Propagation for Geodesic Paths Extraction
Abstract
In this paper we present a simple modification of the Fast Marching algorithm to speed up the computation using a heuristic. This modification leads to an algorithm that is similar in spirit to the A* algorithm used in artificial intelligence. Using a heuristic allows to extract geodesics from a single source to a single goal very quickly and with a low memory requirement. Any application that needs to compute a lot of geodesic paths can gain benefits from our algorithm. The computational saving is even more important for 3D medical images with tubular structures and for higher dimensional data.
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