Segmentation of Airways Based on Gradient Vector Flow
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چکیده
We present an automated approach for the segmentation of airways in CT datasets. The approach utilizes the Gradient Vector Flow and consists of two main processing steps. Initially, airway-like structures are identified and their centerlines are extracted. These centerlines are used in a second step to initialize the actual segmentation of the corresponding airways. An evaluation on 20 clinical datasets shows that our method achieves a good average airway branch count (63.0%) without any major leakage.
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