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VESCL: an open source 2D vessel contouring library.
Frisken, S F; Haouchine, N; Chlorogiannis, D D; Gopalakrishnan, V; Cafaro, A; Wells, W T; Golby, A J; Du, R.
Afiliação
  • Frisken SF; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA. sfrisken@bwh.harvard.edu.
  • Haouchine N; Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. sfrisken@bwh.harvard.edu.
  • Chlorogiannis DD; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA.
  • Gopalakrishnan V; Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
  • Cafaro A; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA.
  • Wells WT; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloníki, Greece.
  • Golby AJ; Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, USA.
  • Du R; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.
Int J Comput Assist Radiol Surg ; 19(8): 1627-1636, 2024 Aug.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38879659
ABSTRACT

PURPOSE:

VESCL (pronounced 'vessel') is a novel vessel contouring library for computer-assisted 2D vessel contouring and segmentation. VESCL facilitates manual vessel segmentation in 2D medical images to generate gold-standard datasets for training, testing, and validating automatic vessel segmentation.

METHODS:

VESCL is an open-source C++ library designed for easy integration into medical image processing systems. VESCL provides an intuitive interface for drawing variable-width parametric curves along vessels in 2D images. It includes highly optimized localized filtering to automatically fit drawn curves to the nearest vessel centerline and automatically determine the varying vessel width along each curve. To support a variety of segmentation paradigms, VESCL can export multiple segmentation representations including binary segmentations, occupancy maps, and distance fields.

RESULTS:

VESCL provides sub-pixel resolution for vessel centerlines and vessel widths. It is optimized to segment small vessels with single- or sub-pixel widths that are visible to the human eye but hard to segment automatically via conventional filters. When tested on neurovascular digital subtraction angiography (DSA), VESCL's intuitive hand-drawn input with automatic curve fitting increased the speed of fully manual segmentation by 22× over conventional methods and by 3× over the best publicly available computer-assisted manual segmentation method. Accuracy was shown to be within the range of inter-operator variability of gold standard manually segmented data from a publicly available dataset of neurovascular DSA images as measured using Dice scores. Preliminary tests showed similar improvements for segmenting DSA of coronary arteries and RGB images of retinal arteries.

CONCLUSION:

VESCL is an open-source C++ library for contouring vessels in 2D images which can be used to reduce the tedious, labor-intensive process of manually generating gold-standard segmentations for training, testing, and comparing automatic segmentation methods.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Angiografia Digital Limite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: Int J Comput Assist Radiol Surg Assunto da revista: RADIOLOGIA Ano de publicação: 2024 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Estados Unidos País de publicação: Alemanha

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Angiografia Digital Limite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: Int J Comput Assist Radiol Surg Assunto da revista: RADIOLOGIA Ano de publicação: 2024 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Estados Unidos País de publicação: Alemanha