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A 3D primary vessel reconstruction framework with serial microscopy images

  • Yanhui Liang
  • , Fusheng Wang
  • , Darren Treanor
  • , Derek Magee
  • , George Teodoro
  • , Yangyang Zhu
  • , Jun Kong
  • Emory University
  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
  • University of Leeds
  • Universidade de Brasília
  • Stony Brook University

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2015 - 18th International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsAlejandro F. Frangi, Nassir Navab, Joachim Hornegger, William M. Wells
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages251-259
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783319245737
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event18th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2015 - Munich, Germany
Duration: Oct 5 2015Oct 9 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9351
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference18th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2015
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityMunich
Period10/5/1510/9/15

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