Axis-Guided Vessel Segmentation Using a Self-Constructing Cascade-AdaBoost-SVM Classifier.

One major limiting factor that prevents the accurate delineation of vessel boundaries has been the presence of blurred boundaries and vessel-like structures. Overcoming this limitation is exactly what we are concerned about in this paper. We describe a very different segmentation method based on a c...

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Published in:BioMed Research International Vol. 2018; pp. 1 - 13
Main Authors: Hu, Xin, Cheng, Yuanzhi, Ding, Deqiong, Chu, Dianhui
Format: algorithm diagnostic images equations & formulas pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell 3/19/2018
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          Hu, Xin
          Cheng, Yuanzhi
          Ding, Deqiong
          Chu, Dianhui
        affil: School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology at Weihai, Weihai 264209, China
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          Artificial Intelligence
          Algorithms
          Surgery, Computer-Assisted Methods
          Vascular Surgery Methods
          Human
          Models, Theoretical
          Validity
          Carotid Arteries Surgery
          Systems Validation
      ab: One major limiting factor that prevents the accurate delineation of vessel boundaries has been the presence of blurred boundaries and vessel-like structures. Overcoming this limitation is exactly what we are concerned about in this paper. We describe a very different segmentation method based on a cascade-AdaBoost-SVM classifier. This classifier works with a vessel axis + cross-section model, which constrains the classifier around the vessel. This has the potential to be both physiologically accurate and computationally effective. To further increase the segmentation accuracy, we organize the AdaBoost classifiers and the Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifiers in a cascade way. And we substitute the AdaBoost classifier with the SVM classifier under special circumstances to overcome the overfitting issue of the AdaBoost classifier. The performance of our method is evaluated on synthetic complex-structured datasets, where we obtain high overlap ratios, around 91%. We also validate the proposed method on one challenging case, segmentation of carotid arteries over real clinical datasets. The performance of our method is promising, since our method yields better results than two state-of-the-art methods on both synthetic datasets and real clinical datasets.
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