Thresholding techniques for segmentation of atherosclerotic plaque and lumen areas in vascular arteries

• Autorzy: Markiewicz T. , Dziekiewicz M. , Osowski S. , Maruszyński M. , Kozłowski W. , Bogusławska-Walecka R.

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DOI

10.1515/bpasts-2015-0031

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The paper develops the automatic methods of segmentation of the blood vessel area in the images of the multi-slice computed tomography, allowing to separate the lumen from the atherosclerotic plaque areas. The solution is based on the application of different implementations of thresholding, including between class variance in a bimodal mode, Gaussian mixture modeling, clustering technique, polynomial and multilayer perceptron approximations. These methods are compared with many examples of arteries of different percentage of the plaque occupancy in the iliac and femoral arteries. The numerical results of segmentation have been verified by the medical experts and prove its usefulness in medical practice. The presented system can find application in an automatic evaluation of the atherosclerosis progression/regression of patients on the basis of sequence of Computed Tomography slice images.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

image processing; thresholding methods; computed tomography; vascular image parameterization

PL

przetwarzanie obrazu; metody progowania; tomografia komputerowa

• Wydawca: Polska Akademia Nauk, Wydział IV Nauk Technicznych
• Czasopismo: Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Technical Sciences
• Rocznik: 2015
• Tom: Vol. 63, nr 1
• Strony: 269--280
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 15, wykr., rys.

Twórcy

autor

Markiewicz T.

• Department of Pathology, Military Institute of Medicine, 128 Szaserow St., 04-141 Warsaw, Poland
• Department of Electrical Eng. Theory, Information and Measurement Systems, Warsaw University of Technology, 1 Politechniki Sq., 00-661 Warsaw, Poland
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Dziekiewicz M.

• Department of Vascular Surgery, Military Institute of Medicine, 128 Szaserow St., 04-141 Warsaw, Poland

autor

Osowski S.

• Department of Electrical Eng. Theory, Information and Measurement Systems, Warsaw University of Technology, 1 Politechniki Sq., 00-661 Warsaw, Poland
• Military University of Technology, 2 Kaliskiego St., 00-908 Warsaw, Poland

autor

Maruszyński M.

• Department of Vascular Surgery, Military Institute of Medicine, 128 Szaserow St., 04-141 Warsaw, Poland

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Kozłowski W.

• Department of Pathology, Military Institute of Medicine, 128 Szaserow St., 04-141 Warsaw, Poland

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Bogusławska-Walecka R.

• Department of Radiology, Military Institute of Medicine, 128 Szaserow St., 04-141 Warsaw, Poland

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