Tracing of thin tubular structures in computer tomographic data
Open Access
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Computer Aided Surgery
- Vol. 3 (2) , 83-88
- https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1097-0150(1998)3:2<83::aid-igs5>3.0.co;2-g
Abstract
For many applications in diagnostics and in the planning of surgical interventions, specific structures have to be identified in a patient's volume data set. In this article we give an outline of how the detection of thin tubular structures (e.g., nerves and vessels) can be automated, requiring very little initialization from a human expert. We focused on the nervus alveolaris inferior in the lower jaw and were looking at three details: data acquisition, detection, and validation of accuracy. Our method can be easily adapted to many similar cases such as other nerves, arteries, and veins or bundles thereof.Keywords
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