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  • Cardiovascular Diagnostics

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  • Accurate vessel centerline extraction from X-ray angiography is vital for analyzing coronary artery disease.
  • Challenges include image noise, poor contrast, and complex vessel structures, hindering complete and continuous extraction.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose an iterative multi-path search framework for automatic and accurate vessel centerline extraction.
  • To address limitations in current methods for analyzing vessel structures in coronary artery disease diagnosis.

Main Methods:

  • Detection and confidence-based sorting of vessel seed points.
  • Multi-path wavefront propagation and accumulated voting for centerline search, including multi-bifurcations.
  • Iterative piecewise extension using wavefront propagation and keypoint detection.

Main Results:

  • The method was evaluated on 1260 synthetic and 50 clinical angiography images.
  • Achieved a high F1 score of 87.8% ± 2.7% on clinical angiography images.
  • Demonstrated accurate and continuous vessel centerline extraction results.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed iterative multi-path search framework effectively extracts vessel centerlines from X-ray angiography.
  • The method overcomes challenges of noise, contrast, and complexity, providing reliable results for cardiovascular diagnostics.