Title
Bronchus Segmentation and Classification by Neural Networks and Linear Programming.
Abstract
Airway segmentation is a critical problem for lung disease analysis. However, building a complete airway tree is still a challenging problem because of the complex tree structure, and tracing the deep bronchi is not trivial in CT images because there are numerous small airways with various directions. In this paper, we develop two-stage 2D+3D neural networks and a linear programming based tracking algorithm for airway segmentation. Furthermore, we propose a bronchus classification algorithm based on the segmentation results. Our algorithm is evaluated on a dataset collected from 4 resources. We achieved the dice coefficient of 0.94 and F1 score of 0.86 by a centerline based evaluation metric, compared to the ground-truth manually labeled by our radiologists.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/978-3-030-32226-7_26
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Airway segmentation,2D+3D neural network,Linear programming,Tracking,Bronchus classification
Conference
11769
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tianyi Zhao100.34
Zhaozheng Yin246743.55
Jiao Wang3178.27
Dashan Gao400.34
Yunqiang Chen531.45
Yunxiang Mao600.34