A Graph-Cut Approach for Pulmonary Artery-Vein Segmentation in Noncontrast CT Images

Computed tomography (CT) technology has been improving during the last decades and currently it is possible to obtain near-isotropic, sub-millimetre resolution acquisition of the complete chest in a single breath-hold, avoiding partial volume effects and breathing artefacts. For that reason CT has become the reference modality in pulmonary imaging and the radiological study of complex biological structures such as pulmonary vessel trees (Hsieh, 2009; Sluimer et  al., 2006).
Source: Medical Image Analysis - Category: Radiology Authors: Source Type: research