Restoring Connectivity in Vascular Segmentation using a Learned Post-Processing Model
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| author | Carneiro-Esteves, Sophie Vacavant, Antoine Merveille, Odyssée |
| author_facet | Carneiro-Esteves, Sophie Vacavant, Antoine Merveille, Odyssée |
| contents | Accurate segmentation of vascular networks is essential for computer-aided tools designed to address cardiovascular diseases. Despite more than thirty years of research, it remains a challenge to obtain vascular segmentation results that preserve the connectivity of the underlying vascular network. Yet connectivity is one of the key feature of these tools. In this work, we propose a post-processing algorithm aiming to reconnect vascular structures that have been disconnected by a segmentation algorithm. Connectivity being a complex property to model explicity, we propose to learn this geometric feature either through synthetic data or annotations of the application of interest. The resulting post-processing model can be used on the output of any supervised or unsupervised vascular segmentation algorithm. We show that this post-processing effectively restores the connectivity of vascular networks both in 2D and 3D images, leading to improved overall segmentation results. |
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| spellingShingle | Restoring Connectivity in Vascular Segmentation using a Learned Post-Processing Model Carneiro-Esteves, Sophie Vacavant, Antoine Merveille, Odyssée Image and Video Processing Accurate segmentation of vascular networks is essential for computer-aided tools designed to address cardiovascular diseases. Despite more than thirty years of research, it remains a challenge to obtain vascular segmentation results that preserve the connectivity of the underlying vascular network. Yet connectivity is one of the key feature of these tools. In this work, we propose a post-processing algorithm aiming to reconnect vascular structures that have been disconnected by a segmentation algorithm. Connectivity being a complex property to model explicity, we propose to learn this geometric feature either through synthetic data or annotations of the application of interest. The resulting post-processing model can be used on the output of any supervised or unsupervised vascular segmentation algorithm. We show that this post-processing effectively restores the connectivity of vascular networks both in 2D and 3D images, leading to improved overall segmentation results. |
| title | Restoring Connectivity in Vascular Segmentation using a Learned Post-Processing Model |
| topic | Image and Video Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10506 |