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Two-Steps Coronary Artery Segmentation Algorithm Based on Improved Level Set Model in Combination with Weighted Shape-Prior Constraints.

Authors :
Ge S
Shi Z
Peng G
Zhu Z
Source :
Journal of medical systems [J Med Syst] 2019 May 29; Vol. 43 (7), pp. 210. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 May 29.
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

Due to the complex topological structure of the coronary artery and the uneven distribution of the contrast agent, the angiography images are inevitably blurred and has low contrast, which causes great difficulty in process of segmentation. For this problem, a two-steps segmentation algorithm based on Hessian matrix and level set is proposed in this paper. Firstly, potential blood vessels of coronary images are preliminary extracted via Hessian matrix eigenvalues feature vectors of the geometric features and the response function. Then a novel regularization and area constraint is introduced into the local data energy fitting functional. Finally, the precision of Coronary Artery image is obtained in the evolution of the level set function. Experiments show that our proposed algorithm has better performance to these comparison segmentation algorithms.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1573-689X
Volume :
43
Issue :
7
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Journal of medical systems
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
31144040
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-019-1329-y