Title
Renal cortex segmentation using optimal surface search with novel graph construction.
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to solve the renal cortex segmentation problem, which has rarely been studied. In this study, the renal cortex segmentation problem is handled as a multiple-surfaces extraction problem, which is solved using the optimal surface search method. We propose a novel graph construction scheme in the optimal surface search to better accommodate multiple surfaces. Different surface sub-graphs are constructed according to their properties, and inter-surface relationships are also modeled in the graph. The proposed method was tested on 17 clinical CT datasets. The true positive volume fraction (TPVF) and false positive volume fraction (FPVF) are 74.10% and 0.08%, respectively. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-23626-6_48
MICCAI (3)
Keywords
Field
DocType
different surface sub-graphs,optimal surface search method,false positive volume fraction,optimal surface search,renal cortex segmentation problem,multiple surface,multiple-surfaces extraction problem,novel graph construction scheme,novel approach
Volume fraction,Renal cortex,Graph,Pattern recognition,Segmentation,Computer science,Nonlinear diffusion,Artificial intelligence
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
Pt 3
0302-9743
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.61
11
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiu-Li Li1886.24
XinJian Chen250253.39
Jianhua Yao31135110.49
Xing Zhang41096.74
Jie Tian51475159.24