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Standardized evaluation methodology and reference database for evaluating coronary artery centerline extraction algorithms.

Authors :
Schaap M
Metz CT
van Walsum T
van der Giessen AG
Weustink AC
Mollet NR
Bauer C
Bogunović H
Castro C
Deng X
Dikici E
O'Donnell T
Frenay M
Friman O
Hernández Hoyos M
Kitslaar PH
Krissian K
Kühnel C
Luengo-Oroz MA
Orkisz M
Smedby O
Styner M
Szymczak A
Tek H
Wang C
Warfield SK
Zambal S
Zhang Y
Krestin GP
Niessen WJ
Source :
Medical image analysis [Med Image Anal] 2009 Oct; Vol. 13 (5), pp. 701-14. Date of Electronic Publication: 2009 Jun 30.
Publication Year :
2009

Abstract

Efficiently obtaining a reliable coronary artery centerline from computed tomography angiography data is relevant in clinical practice. Whereas numerous methods have been presented for this purpose, up to now no standardized evaluation methodology has been published to reliably evaluate and compare the performance of the existing or newly developed coronary artery centerline extraction algorithms. This paper describes a standardized evaluation methodology and reference database for the quantitative evaluation of coronary artery centerline extraction algorithms. The contribution of this work is fourfold: (1) a method is described to create a consensus centerline with multiple observers, (2) well-defined measures are presented for the evaluation of coronary artery centerline extraction algorithms, (3) a database containing 32 cardiac CTA datasets with corresponding reference standard is described and made available, and (4) 13 coronary artery centerline extraction algorithms, implemented by different research groups, are quantitatively evaluated and compared. The presented evaluation framework is made available to the medical imaging community for benchmarking existing or newly developed coronary centerline extraction algorithms.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1361-8423
Volume :
13
Issue :
5
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Medical image analysis
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
19632885
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2009.06.003