Carotid artery lumen segmentation in 3D free-hand ultrasound images using surface graph cuts

Andrés M. Arias Lorza, Diego D. B. Carvalho, Jens Petersen, Anouk C. van Dijk, Aad van der Lugt, Wiro J. Niessen, Stefan Klein, Marleen de Bruijne

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Abstract

We present a new approach for automated segmentation of the carotid lumen bifurcation from 3D free-hand ultrasound using a 3D surface graph cut method. The method requires only the manual selection of single seed points in the internal, external, and common carotid arteries. Subsequently, the centerline between these points is automatically traced, and the optimal lumen surface is found around the centerline using graph cuts. To refine the result, the latter process was iterated. The method was tested on twelve carotid arteries from six subjects including three patients with a moderate carotid artery stenosis. Our method successfully segmented the lumen in all cases. We obtained an average dice overlap with respect to a manual segmentation of 84% for healthy volunteers. For the patient data, we obtained a dice overlap of 66.7%.

OriginalsprogDansk
TitelMedical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2013 : 16th International Conference, Nagoya, Japan, September 22-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part II
RedaktørerKensaku Mori, Ichiro Sakuma, Yoshinobu Sato, Christian Barillot, Nassir Navab
Antal sider8
ForlagSpringer
Publikationsdato2013
Sider542-549
ISBN (Trykt)978-3-642-40762-8
ISBN (Elektronisk)978-3-642-40763-5
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2013
Begivenhed16th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - Nagoya, Japan
Varighed: 22 sep. 201326 sep. 2013
Konferencens nummer: 16

Konference

Konference16th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention
Nummer16
Land/OmrådeJapan
ByNagoya
Periode22/09/201326/09/2013
NavnLecture notes in computer science
Vol/bind8150
ISSN0302-9743

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