Fast centerline extraction method of cardiovascular virtual endoscopy

Jiajia Cong, Xin Yang, Liping Yao

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Abstract

This paper introduces a fast centerline extraction method for the cardiovascular virtual endoscopy system. It is based on the current distance mapping algorithm but significantly enhances it. Our method consists of three major parts: image preprocessing and segmentation, euclidean distance transform (EDT) and centerline extraction using pairing heap. The main contribution is the extraction process, we adopt an improved method based on Dijkstra algorithm proposed by Ming Wang and use a new data structure called "pairing heap" to improve this method, and it can speed up the extraction process greatly. The experimental results show that our method is more efficient compared with existing methods. © Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
Original languageEnglish
Article number017
JournalProceedings of Science
Volume18-19-December-2015
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event4th International Conference on Information Science and Cloud Computing, ISCC 2015 - Guangzhou, China
Duration: 18 Dec 201519 Dec 2015
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