Browse > Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2012.16.3.591

Pulmonary vascular Segmentation and Refinement On the CT Scans  

Shin, Min-Jun (순천대학교 컴퓨터과학과)
Kim, Do-Yeon (순천대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Abstract
Medical device performance has been advanced while images are expected to be acquired with further higher quality and pertinent applicability as images have been increasing in importance in analyzing major organs. Recent high frequency of image processing by MATLAB in image analysis area accounts for the intent of this study to segment pulmonary vessels by means of MATLAB. This study is to consist of 3 phases including pulmonary region segmentation, pulmonary vessel segmentation and three dimensional connectivity assessment, in which vessel was segmented, using threshold level, from the pulmonary region segmented, vessel thickness was measured as two dimensional refining process and three dimensional connectivity was assessed as three dimensional refining process. It is expected that MATLAB-based image processing should contribute to diversity and reliability of medical image processing and that the study results may lay a foundation for chest CT images-related researches.
Keywords
Image Segmentation; Vessel Extraction; Labeling; Pulmonary vascular;
Citations & Related Records
Times Cited By KSCI : 2  (Citation Analysis)
연도 인용수 순위
1 김현수, 팽소호, 뮤잠멜, 김덕환, "흉부 CT 영상을 이용한 폐 혈관 추출 및 폐 결절 재분류기법", 전자공학회논문지, 제46권, 제6호, pp.658-666 , 2009   과학기술학회마을
2 Cemil Kirbas, Francis Quek, "A Review of Vessel Extraction Techniques and Algorithms", ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Vol 36, Issue 2, 2004
3 탁정남, 김희숙, 이귀상, 김수형, 홍성훈 "임계치를 이용한 폐 기관지 영상 분할", 정보처리학회학술지, 제11권, 제1호, pp. 785-788, 2004
4 Ralph J.M. Peters, Henk A. Marquering, Halil Dogan, Emile A. Hendriks, Albert de Roos, Johan H.C. Reiber and Berend C. Stoel, "Labeling the Pulmonary Arterial Tree in CT Images for Automatic Quantification of Pulmonary Embolism", Proc. SPIE, Vol. 6514, pp.1605-7422, 2007
5 임예니, 홍헬렌, "흉부 CT 영상의 밝기값 정보를 사용한 폐 구조물 자동 분할", 정보과학회논문지, 제33 권, 제11호, pp. 942-952, 2006   과학기술학회마을