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The assessment of vascular complexity in the lower limbs provides important information about peripheral artery diseases, with a relevant impact on both therapeutic decisions and on prognostic estimation. Currently, the evaluation is carried out by visual inspection of cine-angiograms, which is largely operator-dependent. An automatic image analysis could offer a fast and more reliable technique to support physicians with the clinical management of these patients. In this work, we introduce a new method to automatically segment the vascular tree from cine-angiography images, in order to improve the clinical interpretation of the complexity of vascular collaterals in Peripheral Arterial Occlusive Disease (PAOD) patients. The approach is based on: (1) a feature-detection method to convert the video into a static image with lager Field Of View (FOV) and (2) a custom Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for the segmentation of vascular structure. Experimental evaluations over a set of clinical cases confirm the viability of the approach: accuracy is assessed in terms of area under the ROC curve, where an average value of \(0.988 \pm 0.006\) is measured.
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Bruno, P. et al. (2018). Using CNNs for Designing and Implementing an Automatic Vascular Segmentation Method of Biomedical Images. In: Ghidini, C., Magnini, B., Passerini, A., Traverso, P. (eds) AI*IA 2018 – Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI*IA 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11298. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03840-3_5
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