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When basilar artery blood circulation is impaired, several symptoms can occur. In addition, the bending of the basilar artery causes stroke and infarction. Therefore, an image processing method for analyzing the bending degree of the basilar artery is introduced herein. To analyze the bending degree, the coordinates of the center points of the basilar artery are extracted using image processing techniques such as Canny edge detection, the contour technique, and the distance conversion technique. An image reconstructed using the three-dimensional scatter plot function in MATLAB and vector plots is used to calculate the vectors for each central point of the basilar artery. Meanwhile, the angle of each central point is calculated by selecting the first central point where the basilar artery begins, the central point with the greatest bending degree, and the central point at which the branching ends. The greater the bending degree of the basilar artery is, the larger the magnitude of the vector in the bending direction. The obtained results are verified by experts in the field, and the proposed algorithm demonstrates good performance.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/diagnostics12092066","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,26]],"date-time":"2022-08-26T02:04:32Z","timestamp":1661479472000},"page":"2066","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Analysis of Bending Degree of Basilar Artery Using Image Processing"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0856-7207","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jeehong","family":"Kim","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Renewable Energy Engineering, Jeonju Vision College, Jeonju 55069, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7575-577X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yeongmin","family":"Jang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7228-8117","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hyosung","family":"Kwak","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Jeonbuk National University Medical School, Jeonju 54896, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5678-3479","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hilal","family":"Tayara","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of International Engineering and Science, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1952-0001","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kil To","family":"Chong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Korea"},{"name":"Advances Electronics and Information Research Center, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"S137","article-title":"Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency","volume":"10","author":"Lee","year":"2011","journal-title":"Res. 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