@inproceedings{c46a1df616724e0ebcaf244d0978c20f,
title = "A 3D primary vessel reconstruction framework with serial microscopy images",
abstract = "Three dimensional microscopy images present significant potential to enhance biomedical studies. This paper presents an automated method for quantitative analysis of 3D primary vessel structures with histology whole slide images. With registered microscopy images of liver tissue, we identify primary vessels with an improved variational level set framework at each 2D slide. We propose a Vessel Directed Fitting Energy (VDFE) to provide prior information on vessel wall probability in an energy minimization paradigm. We find the optimal vessel cross-section associations along the image sequence with a two-stage procedure. Vessel mappings are first found between each pair of adjacent slides with a similarity function for four association cases. These bi-slide vessel components are further linked by Bayesian Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) estimation where the posterior probability is modeled as a Markov chain. The efficacy of the proposed method is demonstrated with 54 whole slide microscopy images of sequential sections from a human liver.",
author = "Yanhui Liang and Fusheng Wang and Darren Treanor and Derek Magee and George Teodoro and Yangyang Zhu and Jun Kong",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.; 18th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2015 ; Conference date: 05-10-2015 Through 09-10-2015",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-24574-4\_30",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319245737",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "251--259",
editor = "Frangi, \{Alejandro F.\} and Nassir Navab and Joachim Hornegger and Wells, \{William M.\}",
booktitle = "Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2015 - 18th International Conference, Proceedings",
}