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The segmentation of three-dimensional vascular trees is an important topic in medical image processing. Although it may seem to be an easy task, many different techniques have been proposed in the literature during the last decade and many difficulties remain. One can wonder why the human eye is usually able to understand the connectivity and the topology of the different structures while most algorithms...