Automated vessel segmentation in lung CT and CTA images via deep neural networks

W Tan, L Zhou, X Li, X Yang, Y Chen… - Journal of X-ray …, 2021 - content.iospress.com
BACKGROUND: The distribution of pulmonary vessels in computed tomography (CT) and
computed tomography angiography (CTA) images of lung is important for diagnosing …

Pulmonary vessel segmentation based on orthogonal fused U-Net++ of chest CT images

H Cui, X Liu, N Huang - Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted …, 2019 - Springer
Pulmonary vessel segmentation is important for clinical diagnosis of pulmonary diseases,
while is also challenging due to the complicated structure. In this work, we present an …

Lung vessel segmentation based on random forests

B Zhao, Z Cao, S Wang - Electronics Letters, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Lung vessel segmentation of computed tomography (CT) images is important in clinical
practise and challenging due to difficulties associated with minor size and blurred edges of …

Pulmonary vessel segmentation via stage-wise convolutional networks with orientation-based region growing optimization

Y Xu, Z Mao, C Liu, B Wang - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For large-scale medical images, automatic pulmonary vessel segmentation is a fundamental
and essential research for various pulmonary disease diagnoses. Most existing approaches …

Pulmonary arteries segmentation from CT images using PA‐Net with attention module and contour loss

C Yuan, S Song, J Yang, Y Sun, B Yang… - Medical Physics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background: Pulmonary embolism is a kind of cardiovascular disease that threatens human
life and health. Since pulmonary embolism exists in the pulmonary artery, improving the …

CE-NC-VesselSegNet: Supervised by contrast-enhanced CT images but utilized to segment pulmonary vessels from non-contrast-enhanced CT images

M Wang, S Qi, Y Wu, Y Sun, R Chang, H Pang… - … Signal Processing and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background The automatic segmentation of pulmonary vessels from CT images has
important significance. However, accurately annotating pulmonary vessels directly in non …

An Res-Unet method for pulmonary artery segmentation of CT images

Z Liu, H Yuan - Journal of physics: conference series, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In the recognition of pulmonary embolism, the accuracy of pulmonary artery segmentation
plays a key role. Due to the irregular shape of pulmonary artery and the complex adjacent …

A multi-scale interactive U-Net for pulmonary vessel segmentation method based on transfer learning

R Wu, Y Xin, J Qian, Y Dong - Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2023 - Elsevier
Pulmonary vessel segmentation is the key application of AI in lung disease diagnosis and
surgical planning. Compared with manual labeling, automatic labeling of pulmonary vessels …

Automatic pulmonary vessel segmentation on noncontrast chest CT: deep learning algorithm developed using spatiotemporally matched virtual noncontrast images …

JG Nam, JN Witanto, SJ Park, SJ Yoo, JM Goo… - European …, 2021 - Springer
Objectives To develop a deep learning–based pulmonary vessel segmentation algorithm
(DLVS) from noncontrast chest CT and to investigate its clinical implications in assessing …

3D pulmonary artery segmentation from CTA scans using deep learning with realistic data augmentation

K López-Linares Román, I de La Bruere… - … on Reconstruction and …, 2018 - Springer
The characterization of the vasculature in the mediastinum, more specifically the pulmonary
artery, is of vital importance for the evaluation of several pulmonary vascular diseases. Thus …