TY - GEN
T1 - Comparison of vesselness functions for multiscale analysis of the liver vasculature
AU - Drechsler, Klaus
AU - Laura, Cristina Oyarzun
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The accurate segmentation of liver vessels is an important step for further computer assisted analysis in oncologic planning tools. Multiscale based vessel enhancement methods are very famous and many papers about this topic were published. Vesselness filters proposed by Sato et al., Frangi et al. and Erdt et al. are based on eigenvalue analysis of the Hessian matrix. They were developed using completely different approaches, namely experimental, geometrical and analytical. In this paper, their behavior at junctions and nearby vessels is systematically compared and evaluated for the enhancement of the liver vasculature. We found that the filter function proposed by Frangi et al. has problems at junctions, while the ones developed by Sato et al and Erdt et al. have problems with nearby vessels. The latter are preferred for the task of liver vessel enhancement.
AB - The accurate segmentation of liver vessels is an important step for further computer assisted analysis in oncologic planning tools. Multiscale based vessel enhancement methods are very famous and many papers about this topic were published. Vesselness filters proposed by Sato et al., Frangi et al. and Erdt et al. are based on eigenvalue analysis of the Hessian matrix. They were developed using completely different approaches, namely experimental, geometrical and analytical. In this paper, their behavior at junctions and nearby vessels is systematically compared and evaluated for the enhancement of the liver vasculature. We found that the filter function proposed by Frangi et al. has problems at junctions, while the ones developed by Sato et al and Erdt et al. have problems with nearby vessels. The latter are preferred for the task of liver vessel enhancement.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/79951643696
U2 - 10.1109/ITAB.2010.5687627
DO - 10.1109/ITAB.2010.5687627
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79951643696
SN - 9781424465606
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE/EMBS Region 8 International Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, ITAB
BT - ITAB 2010 - 10th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine
T2 - 10th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine: Emerging Technologies for Patient Specific Healthcare, ITAB 2010
Y2 - 2 November 2010 through 5 November 2010
ER -