Automatic Left and Right Lung Separation Using Free-Formed Surface Fitting on Volumetric CT.

This study presents a completely automated method for separating the left and right lungs using free-formed surface fitting on volumetric computed tomography (CT). The left and right lungs are roughly divided using iterative 3-dimensional morphological operator and a Hessian matrix analysis. A point...

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Publicado en:Journal of Digital Imaging Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 538 - 548
Autores principales: Lee, Youn, Lee, Minho, Kim, Namkug, Seo, Joon, Park, Joo
Formato: diagnostic images equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature 2014 Aug
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          Lee, Youn
          Lee, Minho
          Kim, Namkug
          Seo, Joon
          Park, Joo
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          Lung Radiography
          Tomography, X-Ray Computed
          Image Interpretation, Computer Assisted
          Imaging, Three-Dimensional
          Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
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      ab: This study presents a completely automated method for separating the left and right lungs using free-formed surface fitting on volumetric computed tomography (CT). The left and right lungs are roughly divided using iterative 3-dimensional morphological operator and a Hessian matrix analysis. A point set traversing between the initial left and right lungs is then detected with a Euclidean distance transform to determine the optimal separating surface, which is then modeled from the point set using a free-formed surface-fitting algorithm. Subsequently, the left and right lung volumes are smoothly and directly separated using the separating surface. The performance of the proposed method was estimated by comparison with that of a human expert on 44 CT examinations. For all data sets, averages of the root mean square surface distance, maximum surface distance, and volumetric overlap error between the results of the automatic and the manual methods were 0.032 mm, 2.418 mm, and 0.017 %, respectively. Our study showed the feasibility of automatically separating the left and right lungs by identifying the 3D continuous separating surface on volumetric chest CT images.
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