Title
Automated assessment of aortic and main pulmonary arterial diameters using model-based blood vessel segmentation for predicting chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension in low-Dose CT lung screening.
Abstract
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is characterized by obstruction of the pulmonary vasculature by residual organized thrombi. A morphological abnormality inside mediastinum of CTEPH patient is enlargement of pulmonary artery. This paper presents an automated assessment of aortic and main pulmonary arterial diameters for predicting CTEPH in low-dose CT lung screening. The distinctive feature of our method is to segment aorta and main pulmonary artery using both of prior probability and vascular direction which were estimated from mediastinal vascular region using principal curvatures of four-dimensional hyper surface. The method was applied to two datasets, 64 low dose CT scans of lung cancer screening and 19 normal-dose CT scans of CTEPH patients through the training phase with 121 low-dose CT scans. This paper demonstrates effectiveness of our method for predicting CTEPH in low-dose CT screening.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1117/12.2293295
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension,computed tomography,computer aided diagnosis,CT lung screening
Conference
10575
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0277-786X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hidenobu Suzuki100.34
Yoshiki Kawata219254.44
Noboru Niki318866.10
Toshihiko Sugiura400.34
nobuhiro tanabe501.01
masahiko kusumoto64616.28
Kenji Eguchi712942.78
Masahiro Kaneko85519.24