TY - GEN
T1 - A thinning-based liver vessel skeletonization method
AU - Chen, Yufei
AU - Drechsler, Klaus
AU - Zhao, Weidong
AU - Laura, Cristina Oyarzun
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - In the clinical practice of diagnosis and treatment of liver disease, how to effectively represent and analyze the vascular structure has been a widely studied topic for a long time. In this paper, we propose a method for the three dimensional skeletal graph generation of liver vessels using 3D thinning algorithm and graph theory. First of all, the principal methods for skeletonization are introduced, followed by their comparative analysis. Secondly, the 3D thinning-based skeletonization method together with a filling hole pre-processing on liver vessel image are employed to form the liver skeleton. A graph-based technique is then employed on the skeleton image to efficiently form the liver vascular graph. The thinning-based liver vessel skeletonization method was evaluated on liver vessel images with other two kinds of skeletonization approaches to show its effectiveness and efficiency.
AB - In the clinical practice of diagnosis and treatment of liver disease, how to effectively represent and analyze the vascular structure has been a widely studied topic for a long time. In this paper, we propose a method for the three dimensional skeletal graph generation of liver vessels using 3D thinning algorithm and graph theory. First of all, the principal methods for skeletonization are introduced, followed by their comparative analysis. Secondly, the 3D thinning-based skeletonization method together with a filling hole pre-processing on liver vessel image are employed to form the liver skeleton. A graph-based technique is then employed on the skeleton image to efficiently form the liver vascular graph. The thinning-based liver vessel skeletonization method was evaluated on liver vessel images with other two kinds of skeletonization approaches to show its effectiveness and efficiency.
KW - liver vessel
KW - skeletonization
KW - three-dimensional thinning algorithm
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/81355164041
U2 - 10.1109/ICICIS.2011.44
DO - 10.1109/ICICIS.2011.44
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:81355164041
SN - 9780769545394
T3 - Proceedings - 2011 International Conference on Internet Computing and Information Services, ICICIS 2011
SP - 152
EP - 155
BT - Proceedings - 2011 International Conference on Internet Computing and Information Services, ICICIS 2011
T2 - 2011 International Conference on Internet Computing and Information Services, ICICIS 2011
Y2 - 17 September 2011 through 18 September 2011
ER -