Paper Info
Title
Automated Labeling of Bronchial Branches in Virtual Bronchoscopy System
Abstract
This paper proposes a method for automated labeling of bronchial branches in virtual bronchoscopy system. Anatomical names of bronchial branches are assigned basing upon a set of rules. If it is possible to assign the anatomical names to bronchial branches extracted from CT images by the computer and is possible to display the name of the currently observed branch on a virtual bronchoscopy image, it will help us to understand the current observing position. The proposed method constructs the knowledge base of anatomical names of bronchial branches. Tree structure of bronchus region is extracted from CT image. Labeling is performed by comparing tree structure information of the extracted bronchus with information of the branches described in the knowledge base. We implemented the proposed method with the virtual bronchoscopy system and obtained satisfactorily result.
Year
DOI
Venue
1998
10.1007/BFb0056275
MICCAI
Keywords
Field
DocType
virtual bronchoscopy system,bronchial branches,knowledge base,tree structure
Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Marching cubes,Artificial intelligence,Tree structure,Bronchoscopy,Knowledge base
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
1496
0302-9743
3-540-65136-5
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.55
9
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kensaku Mori11125160.28
Jun-ichi Hasegawa222161.17
Y Suenaga3737187.41
Jun-ichiro Toriwaki4578136.04
Hirofumi Anno53919.03
Kazuhiro Katada64620.43