Affinity-based constraint optimization for nearly-automatic vessel segmentation

O. Cooper; M. Freiman; L. Joskowicz; D. Lischinski

doi:10.1117/12.841245

12 March 2010 Affinity-based constraint optimization for nearly-automatic vessel segmentation

O. Cooper, M. Freiman, L. Joskowicz, D. Lischinski

Proceedings Volume 7623, Medical Imaging 2010: Image Processing; 76230O (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.841245
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We present an affinity-based optimization method for nearly-automatic vessels segmentation in CTA scans. The desired segmentation is modeled as a function that minimizes a quadratic affinity-based functional. The functional incorporates intensity and geometrical vessel shape information and a smoothing constraint. Given a few user-defined seeds, the minimum of the functional is obtained by solving a single set of linear equations. The binary segmentation is then obtained by applying a user-selected threshold. The advantages of our method are that it requires fewer initialization seeds, is robust, and yields better results than existing graph-based interactive segmentation methods. Experimental results on 20 vessel segments including the carotid arteries bifurcation and noisy parts of the carotid yield a mean symmetric surface error of 0.54mm (std=0.28).

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O. Cooper, M. Freiman, L. Joskowicz, and D. Lischinski "Affinity-based constraint optimization for nearly-automatic vessel segmentation", Proc. SPIE 7623, Medical Imaging 2010: Image Processing, 76230O (12 March 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.841245

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