Title
Segmentation Of The Rectus Abdominis Muscle Anterior Fascia For The Analysis Of Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforators
Abstract
The segmentation of the anterior fascia of the rectus abdominis muscle is an important step towards the analysis of abdominal vasculature. It may advance Computer Aided Detection tools that support the activity of clinicians who study vessels for breast reconstruction using the Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator flap. In this paper, we propose a two-fold methodology to detect the anterior fascia in Computerized Tomographic Angiography volumes. First, a slice-wise thresholding is applied and followed by a post-processing phase. Finally, an interpolation framework is used to obtain a final smooth fascia detection. We evaluated our method in 20 different volumes, by calculating the mean Euclidean distance to manual annotations, achieving subvoxel error.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/978-3-319-58838-4_59
PATTERN RECOGNITION AND IMAGE ANALYSIS (IBPRIA 2017)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Medical image, Segmentation, Abdominal anterior fascia
Computer vision,Anatomy,Rectus abdominis muscle,Computer science,Segmentation,Euclidean distance,Interpolation,Artificial intelligence,Fascia,Breast reconstruction,Thresholding,Angiography
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
10255
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ricardo J. Araújo101.69
Hélder P. Oliveira26313.99