Journal
MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS
Volume 13, Issue 5, Pages 701-714Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2009.06.003
Keywords
Standardized evaluation; Centerline extraction; Tracking; Coronaries; Computed tomography
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- Industrial and Technological Development Centre (CDTI)
- EC @neurIST [IST-FP6-2004-027703]
- Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN)
- ECOS-Nord [C07M04]
- Region Rhone-Alpes [PP3/I3M]
- Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs [IS044070]
- Spanish government
- University of Las Palmas of Gran Canaria
- Ramon y Cajal
- Spanish Ministry of Education and Science [TIN2007-68048-C02-01]
- Spanish Ministry of Industry (CDTI)
- NIH [R01 RR021885, R01 GM074068, R01 EB008015]
- Agfa HealthCare
- Austrian Kplus
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Efficiently obtaining a reliable coronary artery centerline from computed tomography angiography data is relevant in clinical practice. Whereas numerous methods have been presented for this purpose, up to now no standardized evaluation methodology has been published to reliably evaluate and compare the performance of the existing or newly developed coronary artery centerline extraction algorithms. This paper describes a standardized evaluation methodology and reference database for the quantitative evaluation of coronary artery centerline extraction algorithms. The contribution of this work is fourfold: (1) a method is described to create a consensus centerline with multiple observers, (2) well-defined measures are presented for the evaluation of coronary artery centerline extraction algorithms, (3) a database containing 32 cardiac CTA datasets with corresponding reference standard is described and made available. and (4) 13 coronary artery centerline extraction algorithms, implemented by different research groups, are quantitatively evaluated and compared. The presented evaluation framework is made available to the medical imaging community for benchmarking existing or newly developed coronary centerline extraction algorithms. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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