Improved CTA Coronary Segmentation with a Volume-Specific Intensity Threshold.
MIUA(2017)
摘要
State-of-the-art CTA imaging equipment has increased increased clinicianu0027s ability to make non-invasive diagnoses of coronary heart disease; however, an effective interpretation of the cardiac CTA becomes cumbersome due to large amount of imaged data. Intensity based background suppression is often used to enhance the coronary vasculature but setting a fixed threshold to discriminate coronaries from fatty muscles could be misleading due to non-homogeneous response of contrast medium in CTA volumes. In this work, we propose a volumespecific model of the contrast medium in the coronary segmentation process to improve the segmentation accuracy. The influence of the contrast medium in a CTA volume was modelled by approximating the intensity histogram of the descending aorta with Gaussian approximation. It should be noted that a significant variation in Gaussian mean for 12 CTA volumes validates the need of volume-wise exclusive intensity threshold for accurate coronary segmentation. Moreover, the effectiveness of the adaptive intensity threshold is illustrated with the help of qualitative and quantitative results.
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Computed tomography angiography, Contrast medium, Curve evolution, Coronary segmentation
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