Fast murine airway segmentation and reconstruction in micro-CT images

Xabier Artaechevarria; Arrate Muñoz-Barrutia; Bram van Ginneken; Carlos Ortiz-de-Solórzano

doi:10.1117/12.811554

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27 February 2009 Fast murine airway segmentation and reconstruction in micro-CT images

Xabier Artaechevarria, Arrate Muñoz-Barrutia, Bram van Ginneken, Carlos Ortiz-de-Solórzano

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Proceedings Volume 7262, Medical Imaging 2009: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging; 72620B (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.811554
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2009, Lake Buena Vista (Orlando Area), Florida, United States

Abstract

Mouse models are becoming instrumental for the study of lung disease. Due to its resolution and low cost, high resolution Computed Tomography (micro-CT) is a very adequate technology to visualize the mouse lungs in-vivo. Automatic segmentation and measurement of airways in micro-CT images of the lungs can be useful as a preliminary step prior other image analysis quantification tasks, as well as for the study of pathologies that alter the airways structure. In this paper, we present an efficient segmentation and reconstruction algorithm which simultaneously segments and reconstructs the bronchial tree, while providing the length and mean radius of each airway segment. A locally adaptive intensity threshold is used to account for the low signal to noise ratio and strong artifacts present in micro-CT images. We validate our method by comparing it with manual segmentations of 10 different scans, obtaining an average true positive volume fraction of 85.52% with a false positive volume fraction of 5.04%.

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Xabier Artaechevarria, Arrate Muñoz-Barrutia, Bram van Ginneken, and Carlos Ortiz-de-Solórzano "Fast murine airway segmentation and reconstruction in micro-CT images", Proc. SPIE 7262, Medical Imaging 2009: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, 72620B (27 February 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.811554

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