Anatomical modeling of the bronchial tree

Gerrit Hentschel; Tobias Klinder; Thomas Blaffert; Thomas Bülow; Rafael Wiemker; Cristian Lorenz

doi:10.1117/12.844485

23 February 2010 Anatomical modeling of the bronchial tree

Gerrit Hentschel, Tobias Klinder, Thomas Blaffert, Thomas Bülow, Rafael Wiemker, Cristian Lorenz

Proceedings Volume 7625, Medical Imaging 2010: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling; 76251F (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.844485
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The bronchial tree is of direct clinical importance in the context of respective diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It furthermore constitutes a reference structure for object localization in the lungs and it finally provides access to lung tissue in, e.g., bronchoscope based procedures for diagnosis and therapy. This paper presents a comprehensive anatomical model for the bronchial tree, including statistics of position, relative and absolute orientation, length, and radius of 34 bronchial segments, going beyond previously published results. The model has been built from 16 manually annotated CT scans, covering several branching variants. The model is represented as a centerline/tree structure but can also be converted in a surface representation. Possible model applications are either to anatomically label extracted bronchial trees or to improve the tree extraction itself by identifying missing segments or sub-trees, e.g., if located beyond a bronchial stenosis. Bronchial tree labeling is achieved using a naïve Bayesian classifier based on the segment properties contained in the model in combination with tree matching. The tree matching step makes use of branching variations covered by the model. An evaluation of the model has been performed in a leaveone- out manner. In total, 87% of the branches resulting from preceding airway tree segmentation could be correctly labeled. The individualized model enables the detection of missing branches, allowing a targeted search, e.g., a local rerun of the tree-segmentation segmentation.

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Gerrit Hentschel, Tobias Klinder, Thomas Blaffert, Thomas Bülow, Rafael Wiemker, and Cristian Lorenz "Anatomical modeling of the bronchial tree", Proc. SPIE 7625, Medical Imaging 2010: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling, 76251F (23 February 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.844485

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