@inproceedings{a064d675789a4d939fd04af130760954,
title = "Tensor-based graph-cut in riemannian metric space and its application to renal artery segmentation",
abstract = "Renal artery segmentation remained a big challenging due to its low contrast. In this paper,we present a novel graph-cut method using tensor-based distance metric for blood vessel segmentation in scalevalued images. Conventional graph-cut methods only use intensity information,which may result in failing in segmentation of small blood vessels. To overcome this drawback,this paper introduces local geometric structure information represented as tensors to find a better solution than conventional graph-cut. A Riemannian metric is utilized to calculate tensors statistics. These statistics are used in a Gaussian Mixture Model to estimate the probability distribution of the foreground and background regions. The experimental results showed that the proposed graph-cut method can segment about 80% of renal arteries with 1mm precision in diameter.",
keywords = "Blood vessel segmentation, Graph-cut, Hessian matrix, Renal artery, Riemannian manifold, Tensor",
author = "Chenglong Wang and Masahiro Oda and Yuichiro Hayashi and Yasushi Yoshino and Tokunori Yamamoto and Frangi, {Alejandro F.} and Kensaku Mori",
note = "Funding Information: Parts of this research were supported by MEXT and JSPS KAKENHI (26108006, 26560255, 25242047), Kayamori Foundation and the JSPS Bilateral International Collaboration Grants. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG 2016.",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-46726-9_41",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319467252",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer-Verlag Italia",
pages = "353--361",
editor = "Leo Joskowicz and Sabuncu, {Mert R.} and William Wells and Gozde Unal and Sebastian Ourselin",
booktitle = "Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2016 - 19th International Conference, Proceedings",
address = "Italy",
}