摘要
Segmentingwholeheartfromcardiaccomputedtomography(CTimagescanprovideanimportantbasisfortheevaluationofcardiacfunctionandhelpimprovetheaccuracyofclinicaldiagnosis.Manualsegmentationisthemostaccuratemethodforcardiacsegmentation.Butitistimeconsumingandnotsufficientlyreproducible.However,cliniciansstillrelyonthismethodinpracticalapplications.Soafullyautomaticmethodisneededtoimprovethesegmentationefficiency.Thispapeproposesaregistration-basedautomaticapproachforthree-dimensional(3DsegmentationofcardiacCTimages.TheproposedmethodutilizesthesimilarityocardiacCTimagesbetweendifferentindividuals,andusesregistrationtoachievethesegmentation.Affinetransformationisfirstlyimplementedtoachieveglobalcoarseregistration.Then,cubicB-splinesareusedtorefinethelocaldetailsinlocallyaccurateregistration.Mutualinformation(Ml)isusedasthesimilaritymeasure,andadaptivestochasticgradientdescent(ASGD)astheoptimizationalgorithm.Oumethodisappliedtothedual-sourcecardiacCTimagestosegmentwholeheartExperimentalresultsshowthattheproposedmethodcanautomaticallysegmentwholeheartfromcardiacCTimages.
出版日期
2016年03月13日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)