An Improved Path-Finding Method for the Tracking of Centerlines of Tortuous Internal Carotid Arteries in MR Angiography.

ABSTRACT: Centerline tracking is useful in performing segmental analysis of vessel tortuosity in angiography data. However, a highly tortuous) artery can produce multiple centerlines due to over-segmentation of the artery, resulting in inaccurate path-finding results when using the shortest path-finding algorithm. In this study, the internal carotid arteries (ICAs) from three-dimensional (3D) time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography (TOF MRA) data were used to demonstrate the effectiveness of a new path-finding method. The method is based on a series of depth-first searches (DFSs) with randomly different orders of neighborhood searches and produces an appropriate path connecting the two endpoints in the ICAs. It was compared with three existing methods which were (a) DFS with a sequential order

SUBMITTER: Kim SO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10970745 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature