Partition Based Extraction of Cerebral Arteries from CT Angiography with Emphasis on Adaptive Tracking英文文献.pdfVIP

Partition-Based Extraction of Cerebral Arteries from CT Angiography with Emphasis on Adaptive Tracking 1 2 1 1 Hackjoon Shim , Il Dong Yun , Kyoung Mu Lee , and Sang Uk Lee 1 School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, Korea hjshim@diehard.snu.ac.kr, kmlee@ee.snu.ac.kr, sanguk@ipl.snu.ac.kr 2 School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Yongin, 449-791, Korea yun@hufs.ac.kr Abstract. In this paper a method to extract cerebral arteries from com- puted tomographic angiography (CTA) is proposed. Since CTA shows both bone and vessels, the examination of vessels is a difficult task. In the upper part of the brain, the arteries of main interest are not close to bone and can be well segmented out by thresholding and simple connected-component analysis. However in the lower part the separa- tion is challenging due to the spatial closeness of bone and vessels and their overlapping intensity distributions. In this paper a CTA volume is partitioned into two sub-volumes according to the spatial relationship between bone and vessels. In the lower sub-volume, the concerning arter- ies are extracted by tracking the center line and detecting the border on each cross-section. The proposed tracking method can be characterized by the adaptive properties to the case of cerebral arteries in CTA. These properties improve the tracking continuity with less user-interaction. 1 Introduction The wall of a cerebral artery may become weak and have a bulging spot like a thin balloon. This is an aneurysm inside which