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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-11-24
pubmed:abstractText
Automatic or semi-automatic segmentation and tracking of artery trees from computed tomography angiography (CTA) is an important step to improve the diagnosis and treatment of artery diseases, but it still remains a significant challenging problem. In this paper, we present an artery extraction method to address the challenge. The proposed method consists of two steps: (1) a geometric moments based tracking to secure a rough centerline, and (2) a fully automatic generalized cylinder structure-based snake method to refine the centerlines and estimate the radii of the arteries. In this method, a new line direction based on first and second order geometric moments is adopted while both gradient and intensity information are used in the snake model to improve the accuracy. The approach has been evaluated on synthetic images as well as 8 clinical coronary CTA images with 32 coronary arteries. Our method achieves 94.7% overlap tracking ability within an average distance inside the vessel of 0.36 mm.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1557-170X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
2010
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3133-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-7-28
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Coronary artery segmentation using geometric moments based tracking and snake-driven refinement.
pubmed:affiliation
State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Institute of Industrial Process Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article