Vesselness propagation: a fast interactive vessel segmentation method

Wenli Cai; Frank Dachille; Gordon J. Harris; Hiroyuki Yoshida

doi:10.1117/12.653637

15 March 2006 Vesselness propagation: a fast interactive vessel segmentation method

Wenli Cai, Frank Dachille, Gordon J. Harris, Hiroyuki Yoshida

Proceedings Volume 6144, Medical Imaging 2006: Image Processing; 614447 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.653637
Event: Medical Imaging, 2006, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

With the rapid development of multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT), resulting in increasing temporal and spatial resolution of data sets, clinical use of computed tomographic angiography (CTA) is rapidly increasing. Analysis of vascular structures is much needed in CTA images; however, the basis of the analysis, vessel segmentation, can still be a challenging problem. In this paper, we present a fast interactive method for CTA vessel segmentation, called vesselness propagation. This method is a two-step procedure, with a pre-processing step and an interactive step. During the pre-processing step, a vesselness volume is computed by application of a CTA transfer function followed by a multi-scale Hessian filtering. At the interactive stage, the propagation is controlled interactively in terms of the priority of the vesselness. This method was used successfully in many CTA applications such as the carotid artery, coronary artery, and peripheral arteries. It takes less than one minute for a user to segment the entire vascular structure. Thus, the proposed method provides an effective way of obtaining an overview of vascular structures.

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Wenli Cai, Frank Dachille, Gordon J. Harris, and Hiroyuki Yoshida "Vesselness propagation: a fast interactive vessel segmentation method", Proc. SPIE 6144, Medical Imaging 2006: Image Processing, 614447 (15 March 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.653637

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