Segmentation of Cerebrovascular Anatomy from TOF-MRA Using Length-Strained Enhancement and Random Walker.

Cerebrovascular rupture can cause a severe stroke. Three-dimensional time-of-flight (TOF) magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is a common method of obtaining vascular information. This work proposes a fully automated segmentation method for extracting the vascular anatomy from TOF-MRA. The steps of...

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Published in:BioMed Research International pp. 1 - 17
Main Authors: Xiao, Ruoxiu, Chen, Cheng, Zou, Hanying, Luo, Ying, Wang, Jiayu, Zha, Muxi, Yu, Ming-An
Format: diagnostic images equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell 9/22/2020
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          Xiao, Ruoxiu
          Chen, Cheng
          Zou, Hanying
          Luo, Ying
          Wang, Jiayu
          Zha, Muxi
          Yu, Ming-An
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          Cerebrovascular Disorders Diagnosis
          Cerebral Veins Anatomy and Histology
          Magnetic Resonance Angiography Methods
          Imaging, Three-Dimensional Methods
          Human
          Image Processing, Computer Assisted Methods
          Algorithms Evaluation
          Neural Networks (Computer)
          Sensitivity and Specificity
      ab: Cerebrovascular rupture can cause a severe stroke. Three-dimensional time-of-flight (TOF) magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is a common method of obtaining vascular information. This work proposes a fully automated segmentation method for extracting the vascular anatomy from TOF-MRA. The steps of the method are as follows. First, the brain is extracted on the basis of regional growth and path planning. Next, the brain's highlighted connected area is explored to obtain seed point information, and the Hessian matrix is used to enhance the contrast of image. Finally, a random walker combined with seed points and enhanced images is used to complete vascular anatomy segmentation. The method is tested using 12 sets of data and compared with two traditional vascular segmentation methods. Results show that the described method obtains an average Dice coefficient of 90.68%, and better results were obtained in comparison with the traditional methods.
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