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In this paper, a novel segmentation method for liver vasculature is presented, intended for numerical simulation of radio frequency ablation (RFA). The developed method is a semiautomatic hybrid based on multi-scale vessel enhancement combined with ridge-oriented region growing and skeleton-based postprocessing. In addition, an interactive tool for segmentation refinement was developed. Four instances of three-phase contrast enhanced computed tomography (CT) images of porcine liver were used in the evaluation. The results showed improved accuracy over common approaches and illustrated the method’s suitability for simulation purposes.
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement n° 223877, project IMPPACT.
The authors gratefully acknowledge Claire Bost for providing simulations.
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Alhonnoro, T. et al. (2010). Vessel Segmentation for Ablation Treatment Planning and Simulation . In: Jiang, T., Navab, N., Pluim, J.P.W., Viergever, M.A. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2010. MICCAI 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6361. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15705-9_6
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