Vessel tree extraction using locally optimal paths

Pechin Chien Pau Lo; Bram van Ginneken; Marleen de Bruijne

doi:10.1109/ISBI.2010.5490083

Vessel tree extraction using locally optimal paths

Pechin Chien Pau Lo, Bram van Ginneken, Marleen de Bruijne

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

This paper proposes a method to extract vessel trees by continually extending detected branches with locally optimal paths. Our approach uses a cost function from a multi scale vessel enhancement filter. Optimal paths are selected based on rules that take into account the geometric characteristics of the vessel tree. Experiments were performed on 10 low dose chest CT scans for which the pulmonary vessel trees were extracted. The proposed method is shown to extract a better connected vessel tree and extract more of the small peripheral vessels in comparison to applying a threshold on the output of the vessel enhancement filter.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2010 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging : from nano to Macro
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	2010
Pages	680-683
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4244-4125-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2010.5490083
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	7th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: from nano to macro - Congress Center "De Doelen", Rotterdam, Netherlands Duration: 14 Apr 2010 → 17 Apr 2010 Conference number: 7

Conference

Conference	7th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
Number	7
Location	Congress Center "De Doelen"
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Rotterdam
Period	14/04/2010 → 17/04/2010

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10.1109/ISBI.2010.5490083

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