Method and system for imaging to identify vascularization

摘要

Apparatus and method for determining an extent of vascularization in which a digitaldigitalized representation of blood vessels in a selected area is generated; one or more statistical quantative measures for the blood vessels in the selected area are calculated; and the one or more statistical quantative measures are compared to corresponding statistical standards to determine an extent of vascularization. The statistical quantative measures may include the density of branch points and the density of end points in a skeleton representing the blood vessels and a fractal dimension for the skeleton.