Abstract:
We introduce a novel method to generate biologically grounded synthetic cerebrovasculature models in a datadriven fashion. First, the centerlines of vascular filaments em...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
We introduce a novel method to generate biologically grounded synthetic cerebrovasculature models in a datadriven fashion. First, the centerlines of vascular filaments embedded in an acquired imaging volume are obtained by a segmentation algorithm. That imaging volume is reconstructed from a graph encoding of the centerline (i.e., generating the model's ground truth) and the segmentation algorithm is applied to the resultant volume. As the location and characteristics of the vasculature embedded in this volume are known, the accuracy of the segmentation algorithm can be assessed. Moreover, because the synthetic volume was reconstructed directly from biological data, an assessment is made on embedded filaments that are representative of the topological and geometrical characteristics of the dataset. We believe that such models will provide the means necessary for the enhanced evaluation of vascular segmentation algorithms.
Published in: 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
Date of Conference: 18-21 July 2018
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 28 October 2018
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PubMed ID: 30441500