A Simplified Method to Segment Liver according to Couinauds Classification

摘要：

Couinauds classification of liver anatomy has been widely accepted in practice. However realizing this classification effectively is not an easy task. In this paper, a simplified segment method based on the hepatic vessel tree is proposed. This method contains four main steps: vasculature segmentation, 3D thinning,vascular tree pruning and classification, vascular projection and curve fit. The first three steps are to extract and analyze the vasculature from liver CT images; and the fourth step is to segment the liver by separation of vessel systems. We test this method and find that it can actually get the result very approximately to the Couinauds classification with high speed.

关键词： Couinauds classification vessel tree projection volumetric analysis

作者: Shao-hui Huang Bo-liang Wang Ming Cheng Xiao-yang Huang Ying Ju

作者单位: Computer Science Department, Xiamen University,Xiamen, Fujian, China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The 1st International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering(iCBBE 2007)(首届IEEE生物信息与生物医学工程国际会议)

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

页码: 533-536

在线出版日期: 2007-07-06（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）