Matching and anatomical labeling of human airway tree

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1540-1547

  Tschirren, Juerg ^a,b   McLennan, Geoffrey ^c   Palágyi, Kálmán ^d   Hoffman, Eric A ^c   Sonka, Milan ^a,e  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b VIDA Diagnostics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^e IA United States   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway tree; Anatomical labeling; Branchpoint matching

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY TREE; ANATOMICAL LABELING; BRANCHPOINT MATCHING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PATTERN MATCHING; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRONCHOGRAPHY; BRONCHUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOCUMENTATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRONCHI; BRONCHOGRAPHY; DOCUMENTATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 29144483584     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2005.857653     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. E. A. Boyden, Segmental Anatomy of the Lungs. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1955.
2. S. A. Wood, E. A. Zerhouni, J. D. Hoford, E. A. Hoffman, and W. Mitzner, "Measurement of three-dimensional lung tree structures by using computed tomography," J. Appl. Physiol., vol. 79, pp. 1687-1697, 1995.
3. C. Pisupati, L. Wolff, W. Mitzner, and E. Zerhouni, "Tracking 3-D pulmonary tree structures," in Proc. Workshop Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, 1996, pp. 160-169.
4. _, "Geometric tree matching with applications to 3D lung structures," in Proc. ACM Symp. Computational Geometry, Philadelphia, PA, 1996. pp. 419-420.
5. Y. Park, "Registration of linear structures in 3-D medical images," Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. Informatics Math. Sci., Osaka Univ., Osaka, Japan, 2002.
6. M. Pelillo, K. Siddiqi, and S. W. Zucker, "Matching hierarchical structures using association graphs," IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., vol. 21, no. 11, pp. 1105-1120, Nov. 1999.
7. K. Mori, Y. Suenaga, and J. Toriwaki, "Automated anatomical labeling of the bronchial branch and its application to the virtual bronchoscopy," IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 103-114, Feb. 2000.
8. H. Kitaoka, Y. Park, J. Tschirren, J. M. Reinhardt, M. Sonka, G. McLennan, and E. A. Hoffman, "Automated nomenclature labeling of the bronchial tree in 3D-CT lung images," in Proc. MICCAI 2002, Tokyo, Japan, 2002, pp. 1-11.
9. J. Tschirren, "Segmentation, anatomical labeling, branchpoint matching, and quantitative analysis of human airway trees in volumetric CT images," Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. Elect., Comput. Eng., Univ. Iowa, Iowa City, 2003.
10. J. Tschirren, E. A. Hoffman, G. McLenna, and M. Sonka, "Segmentation and quantitative analysis of intrathoracic airway trees in low-dose ct scans," IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., 2004, submitted for publication.
11. K. Palágyi, J. Tschirren, and M. Sonka, "Quantitative analysis of intrathoracic airway trees: Methods and validation," in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2732, Proc. 18th Int. Conf. Information Processing in Medical Imaging, IPMI. Ambleside, U.K., 2003, pp. 222-233.
12. K. Palágyi, J. Tschirren, and M. Sonka, "Quantitative analysis of three-dimensional tubular tree structures," presented at the SPIE Conf. Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, Feb. 15-20, 2003.
13. D. H. Ballard and C.M. Brown, Computer Vision. Upper Saddle River: Prentice-Hall, 1982.
14. M. R. Garey and D. S. Johnson, Computers and Intractability, a Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness. San Francisco, CA: Freeman, 1979.
15. R. Carraghan and P. M. Pardalos, "An exact algorithm for the maximum clique problem," Op. Res. Lett., vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 375-382, 1990.
16. Y. Pan, D. Kumar, E. A. Hoffman, G. E. Christensen, G. McLennan, J. H. Song, A. Ross, B. A. Simon, and J. M. Reinhardt, "Regional lung expansion via 3D image registration," presented at the SPIE Conf. Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, 2005.