(2005) IEEE-EMBC 2005 27th Annual International Conference (IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society) — Location: Shanghai, China (1.September.2005)
We propose a novel method, guided slice marching to segment opacified vessels tree in 3D image sets (CT scans). It combines a front propagation technique, slice marching, and an anatomical model to guide the propagation for solving the particular case of touching vessels. The formulation of this method, which is based on interface evolution theory, enables easy integration of an a priori model of knowledge of vessels topology to handle the case of touching vessels, where image-based method systematically fails. The a priori knowledge is expressed as parametric curves that model vessels centerline. That information is injected in the fast marching method through the speed of propagation, setting it to zero at missing vessels boundaries. The model is intended to be reused across patients, and must therefore be registered with the image
Sebbe, R., Gosselin, B., Coche, E., & Macq, B. (2005). Segmentation of Opacified Thorax Vessels using Model-driven Active Contour. In IEEE (ed.), IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Proceedings (p. p. 2535-2538). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/60365