Blood vessel segmentation algorithms—review of methods, datasets and evaluation metrics

S Moccia, E De Momi, S El Hadji, LS Mattos - Computer methods and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Blood vessel segmentation is a topic of high interest in medical image analysis
since the analysis of vessels is crucial for diagnosis, treatment planning and execution, and …

A recurrent CNN for automatic detection and classification of coronary artery plaque and stenosis in coronary CT angiography

M Zreik, RW Van Hamersvelt… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Various types of atherosclerotic plaque and varying grades of stenosis could lead to different
management of patients with a coronary artery disease. Therefore, it is crucial to detect and …

Standardized evaluation framework for evaluating coronary artery stenosis detection, stenosis quantification and lumen segmentation algorithms in computed …

HA Kirişli, M Schaap, CT Metz, AS Dharampal… - Medical image …, 2013 - Elsevier
Though conventional coronary angiography (CCA) has been the standard of reference for
diagnosing coronary artery disease in the past decades, computed tomography …

Imagecas: A large-scale dataset and benchmark for coronary artery segmentation based on computed tomography angiography images

A Zeng, C Wu, G Lin, W **e, J Hong, M Huang… - … Medical Imaging and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) accounts for about half of non-communicable diseases.
Vessel stenosis in the coronary artery is considered to be the major risk of CVD. Computed …

Automatic detection of coronary artery stenosis by convolutional neural network with temporal constraint

W Wu, J Zhang, H **e, Y Zhao, S Zhang, L Gu - Computers in biology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a major threat to human health. In clinical practice, X-ray
coronary angiography remains the gold standard for CAD diagnosis, where the detection of …

Fusing 2D and 3D convolutional neural networks for the segmentation of aorta and coronary arteries from CT images

L Gu, XC Cai - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Automated segmentation of three-dimensional medical images is of great importance for the
detection and quantification of certain diseases such as stenosis in the coronary arteries …

Automatic segmentation, detection and quantification of coronary artery stenoses on CTA

R Shahzad, H Kirişli, C Metz, H Tang, M Schaap… - The international journal …, 2013 - Springer
Accurate detection and quantification of coronary artery stenoses is an essential
requirement for treatment planning of patients with suspected coronary artery disease. We …

Automatic coronary wall and atherosclerotic plaque segmentation from 3D coronary CT angiography

AM Ghanem, AH Hamimi, JR Matta, A Carass… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Coronary plaque burden measured by coronary computerized tomography angiography
(CCTA), independent of stenosis, is a significant independent predictor of coronary heart …

Coronary artery segmentation in cardiac CT angiography using 3D multi-channel U-net

YC Chen, YC Lin, CP Wang, CY Lee, WJ Lee… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Vessel stenosis is a major risk factor in cardiovascular diseases (CVD). To analyze the
degree of vessel stenosis for supporting the treatment management, extraction of coronary …

Fast level‐set based image segmentation using coherent propagation

C Wang, H Frimmel, Ö Smedby - Medical physics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The level‐set method is known to require long computation time for 3D image
segmentation, which limits its usage in clinical workflow. The goal of this study was to …