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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2018.19.1.113

Detecting Regions of Stenosis and Aneurysm in a 3D Blood Vessel Model  

Park, Sang-Jin (Division of M&S Center, KISTI)
Kim, Jae-Sung (Division of M&S Center, KISTI)
Park, Hyungjun (Department of Industrial Engineering, Chosun University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.19, no.1, 2018 , pp. 113-120 More about this Journal
Abstract
Angiography and CT angiography are used widely for the examination of vascular diseases, but the diagnosis of such diseases is made mostly by the subjective judgment of the inspector. This paper proposes a method for detecting the suspicious regions of stenosis and aneurysm in the inner surfaces of 3D blood vessel models reconstructed from medical images. Initially, the 3D curve-skeletons of the blood vessel models and the contours at the nodes of the curve-skeletons were generated. Next, the 3D curve-skeletons were divided into a set of branches and the areas of normal contours of nodes located in each branch were calculated. The nodes whose contours contain suspicious regions were detected by taking into account the average area, maximum and minimum areas, and the area difference between the adjacent normal contours. The diagnosis of stenosis and aneurysm can be supported by properly visualizing the suspicious regions detected. The suspicious regions of the disease were identified by implementing and testing it using several data sets of human blood vessels, highlighting the usefulness of the proposed method.
Keywords
3D Blood Vessels; Medical Images; Vascular Diseases; Curve Skeletons; Contour Areas; Region Detection;
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