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Recent advances in Computed Tomography Angiography provide high-resolution 3D images of the vessels. However, there is an inevitable requisite for automated and fast methods to process the increased amount of generated data. In this work, we propose a fast method for vascular skeleton extraction which can be combined with a segmentation algorithm to accelerate the vessel delineation. The algorithm detects central voxels - nodes - of potential vessel regions in the orthogonal CT slices and uses a convolutional neural network (CNN) to identify the true vessel nodes. The nodes are gradually linked together to generate an approximate vascular skeleton. The CNN classifier yields a precision of 0.81 and recall of 0.83 for the medium size vessels and produces a qualitatively evaluated enhanced representation of vascular skeletons.
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Lidayová, Frimmel, Bengtsson, and Smedby have been supported by the Swedish Research Council (VR), grant no. 621-2014-6153. Gupta has been supported by Skype IT Academy Stipend Program, EU institutional grant IUT19-11 of Estonian Research Council.
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Lidayová, K., Gupta, A., Frimmel, H., Sintorn, IM., Bengtsson, E., Smedby, Ö. (2017). Classification of Cross-sections for Vascular Skeleton Extraction Using Convolutional Neural Networks. In: Valdés Hernández, M., González-Castro, V. (eds) Medical Image Understanding and Analysis. MIUA 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 723. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60964-5_16
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