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¹Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, 34956 Istanbul, Turkey. suheylacetin@sabanciuniv.edu

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This study introduces a novel tubular structure segmentation method using anisotropic tensor modeling, inspired by diffusion tensor imaging. The approach accurately segments entire vessel trees and extracts vessel centerlines and thickness, achieving high overlap with expert delineations.

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Area of Science:

Medical Imaging
Image Segmentation
Computational Anatomy

Background:

Accurate segmentation of tubular structures, such as blood vessels, is crucial for medical diagnosis and treatment planning.
Existing methods often struggle with complex vascular networks and require manual initialization or extensive parameter tuning.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and evaluate a novel, automated method for segmenting tubular structures, specifically vascular trees.
To extract key morphological information including vessel centerlines and thickness.
To compare the performance of the proposed method against existing techniques using established frameworks.

Main Methods:

A second-order tensor is constructed from directional intensity measurements, inspired by diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).
An anisotropic tensor guides the segmentation process, similar to tractography in DTI.
The model is initialized with a single seed point and incorporates an automatic branch detection algorithm to capture entire vessel trees.
Segmentation performance is evaluated using the Rotterdam Coronary Artery Algorithm Evaluation framework and on synthetic vascular datasets.

Main Results:

The proposed method achieved an average overlap of 96.4% with expert-delineated ground truth.
The technique successfully segmented whole vessel trees, including complex branching patterns.
Quantitative and qualitative evaluations on computed tomography angiography (CTA) datasets demonstrated robust performance in branch detection and overall segmentation accuracy.

Conclusions:

The developed tubular structure segmentation method offers a robust and accurate approach for analyzing vascular networks.
The tensor-driven, seed-point initialized framework with automatic branch detection provides an efficient and automated solution for vessel segmentation.
This method shows significant potential for improving the analysis of vascular diseases from medical imaging data.