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A system including a memory to store image data corresponding to a three dimensional (3D) reconstructed image, and a processor that includes an automatic vessel tree extraction module. The automatic vessel tree extraction module includes a load data module to access the stored image data, a component identification module to identify those components of the image data deemed likely to belong to a vessel, a characteristic path computation module to compute one or more characteristic paths for an identified component having a volume greater than a specified threshold volume value and discard an identified component having a volume less than the specified threshold volume value, and a connection module to connect the computed one or more characteristic paths of the identified component to a characteristic path of another identified component or to a common vessel source until the identified components are connected or discarded.

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