Active double-contour for segmentation of vessels in digital subtraction angiography

Manfred Hinz; Klaus D. Toennies; Markus Grohmann; Regina Pohle

doi:10.1117/12.431040

3 July 2001 Active double contour for segmentation of vessels in digital subtraction angiography

Manfred Hinz, Klaus D. Toennies, Markus Grohmann, Regina Pohle

Proceedings Volume 4322, Medical Imaging 2001: Image Processing; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.431040
Event: Medical Imaging 2001, 2001, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Successful extraction of small vessels in DSA images requires inclusion of prior knowledge about vessel characteristics. We developed an active double contour (ADC) that uses a vessel template as a model. The template is fitted to the vessel using an adapted ziplock snake approach based on two user-specified end locations. The external energy terms of the ADC describe an ideal vessel with projections changing slowly their course, width and intensity. A backtracking ability was added that enables overturning local decisions that may cause the ziplock snake to be trapped in a local minimum. This is because the optimization of the ADC is carried out locally. If the total energy indicates such case, vessel boundary points are removed and the ziplock process starts again without this location in its actual configuration. The method was tested on artificial data and DSA data. The former showed good agreement between artificial vessel and segmented structure at an SNR as low as 1.5:1. Results from DSA data showed robustness of the method in the presence of noise and its ability to cope with branchings and crossings. The backtracking was found to overcome local minima of the energy function at artefacts, vessel crossings and in regions of low SNR.

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Manfred Hinz, Klaus D. Toennies, Markus Grohmann, and Regina Pohle "Active double contour for segmentation of vessels in digital subtraction angiography", Proc. SPIE 4322, Medical Imaging 2001: Image Processing, (3 July 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.431040

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