Title
Accurate geometry modeling of vasculatures using implicit fitting with 2D radial basis functions.
Abstract
Accurate vascular geometry modeling is an essential task in computer assisted vascular surgery and therapy. This paper presents a vessel cross-section based implicit vascular modeling technique, which represents a vascular surface as a set of locally fitted implicit surfaces. In the proposed method, a cross-section based technique is employed to extract from each cross-section of the vascular surface a set of points, which are then fitted with an implicit curve represented as 2D radial basis functions. All these implicitly represented cross-section curves are then being considered as 3D cylindrical objects and combined together using a certain partial shape-preserving spline to build a complete vessel branch; different vessel branches are then blended using a extended smooth maximum function to construct the complete vascular tree. Experimental results show that the proposed method can correctly represent the morphology and topology of vascular structures with high level of smoothness. Both qualitative comparison with other methods and quantitative validations to the proposed method have been performed to verify the accuracy and smoothness of the generated vascular geometric models.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.cagd.2018.03.006
Computer Aided Geometric Design
Keywords
Field
DocType
Geometry modeling,Vasculature,Implicit fitting
Spline (mathematics),Radial basis function,Cylinder,Geometry,Smoothness,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
62
0167-8396
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
19
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qingqi Hong1226.94
Qingde Li2598.67
beizhan wang3115.01
Kun-hong Liu421717.00
Fan Lin56715.98
Juncong Lin610520.73
Xuan Cheng700.68
Zhihong Zhang810015.85
Ming Zeng9986.59