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Etymology edit

vessel +‎ -ness

Noun edit

vesselness (uncountable)

  1. The condition of being a (tubular) vessel
    • 2015 November 17, “Active Contours Driven by Multi-Feature Gaussian Distribution Fitting Energy with Application to Vessel Segmentation”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      Hence, a novel region-based active contour model is proposed by taking image intensities and ‘vesselness values’ from local phase-based vesselness enhancement into account simultaneously to define a novel multi-feature Gaussian distribution fitting energy in this paper.