Automated assessment of aortic and main pulmonary arterial diameters using model-based blood vessel segmentation for predicting chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension in low-dose CT lung screening

Hidenobu Suzuki; Yoshiki Kawata; Noboru Niki; Toshihiko Sugiura; Nobuhiro Tanabe; Masahiko Kusumoto; Kenji Eguchi; Masahiro Kaneko

doi:10.1117/12.2293295

27 February 2018 Automated assessment of aortic and main pulmonary arterial diameters using model-based blood vessel segmentation for predicting chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension in low-dose CT lung screening

Hidenobu Suzuki, Yoshiki Kawata, Noboru Niki, Toshihiko Sugiura, Nobuhiro Tanabe, Masahiko Kusumoto, Kenji Eguchi, Masahiro Kaneko

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Proceedings Volume 10575, Medical Imaging 2018: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 105750X (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2293295
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2018, Houston, Texas, United States

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Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is characterized by obstruction of the pulmonary vasculature by residual organized thrombi. A morphological abnormality inside mediastinum of CTEPH patient is enlargement of pulmonary artery. This paper presents an automated assessment of aortic and main pulmonary arterial diameters for predicting CTEPH in low-dose CT lung screening. The distinctive feature of our method is to segment aorta and main pulmonary artery using both of prior probability and vascular direction which were estimated from mediastinal vascular region using principal curvatures of four-dimensional hyper surface. The method was applied to two datasets, 64 lowdose CT scans of lung cancer screening and 19 normal-dose CT scans of CTEPH patients through the training phase with 121 low-dose CT scans. This paper demonstrates effectiveness of our method for predicting CTEPH in low-dose CT screening.

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Hidenobu Suzuki, Yoshiki Kawata, Noboru Niki, Toshihiko Sugiura, Nobuhiro Tanabe, Masahiko Kusumoto, Kenji Eguchi, and Masahiro Kaneko "Automated assessment of aortic and main pulmonary arterial diameters using model-based blood vessel segmentation for predicting chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension in low-dose CT lung screening", Proc. SPIE 10575, Medical Imaging 2018: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 105750X (27 February 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2293295

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