Title :
SEMI-AUTOMATIC CORONARY ARTERY CENTERLINE EXTRACTION IN COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY DATA
Author :
Metz, Coert ; Schaap, Michiel ; van der Giessen, A. ; van Walsum, Theo ; Niessen, Wiro
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Radiol. & Med. Inf., Univ. Med. Center Rotterdam
Abstract :
This paper presents a semi-automatic coronary centerline extraction algorithm for computed tomography angiography data. The method applies region growing to computed tomography angiography data and incorporates bifurcation and leak detection. The presented method is evaluated either on the original data and on data in which vessel-like structures have been enhanced. Semi-automatically extracted centerlines of the three main coronary arteries are compared with centerlines manually annotated by three observers, using an overlap and distance measure. The method successfully extracted vessel centerlines in up to 15 out of 18 evaluated cases, with a localization accuracy which was in the range of the interobserver variability. Vessel enhancement prior to centerline extraction did not improve the results
Keywords :
angiocardiography; bifurcation; blood vessels; computerised tomography; feature extraction; image enhancement; leak detection; medical image processing; bifurcation; computed tomography angiography; coronary artery; coronary centerline extraction; interobserver variability; leak detection; localization accuracy; semiautomatic centerline extraction; vessel enhancement; vessel-like structures; Angiography; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Arteries; Bifurcation; Biomedical imaging; Computed tomography; Data mining; Leak detection; Radiology; Tensile stress;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, 2007. ISBI 2007. 4th IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0672-2
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0672-2
DOI :
10.1109/ISBI.2007.356987