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ArticleBiomedical engineering online2018

Semi-automatic measurements and description of the geometry of vascular tree based on Bézier spline curves: application to cerebral arteries.

Jarosław Żyłkowski, Grzegorz Rosiak, Dominik Spinczyk

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Article in Biomedical engineering online, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Jarosław ŻyłkowskiSecond Department of Clinical Radiology, Medical University of Warsaw, 1a Banacha, 02-097, Warsaw, Poland.
Grzegorz RosiakSecond Department of Clinical Radiology, Medical University of Warsaw, 1a Banacha, 02-097, Warsaw, Poland.
Dominik SpinczykFaculty of Biomedical Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, Roosevelta 40, Zabrze, Poland. dspinczyk@polsl.pl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0068-2948
Medical University of Warsaw · PLSilesian University of Technology · PL

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Abstract

backgroundThe geometry of the vessels is easy to assess in novel 3D studies. It has significant influence on flow patterns and this way the evolution of vascular pathologies such as aneurysms and atherosclerosis. It is essential to develop robust system for vascular anatomy measurement and digital description allowing for assessment of big numbers of vessels.

methodsA semiautomatic, robust, integrated method for vascular anatomy measurements and mathematical description are presented. Bezier splines of 6th degree and continuity of C3 was proposed and distribution of control points was dependent on local radius. Due to main interest of our institution, the system was primarily used for the assessment of the geometry of the intracranial arteries, especially the first Medial Cerebral Artery division.

results1359 synthetic figures were generated: 381 torus and 978 spirals. Experimental verification of the proposed methodology was conducted on 400 Middle Cerebral Artery divisions.

conclusionsIn difference to other described solution all proposed methodology steps were integrated allows analysis of variability of geometrical parameters among big number of Medial Cerebral Artery bifurcations using single application. This allows for determination of significant trends in the parameters variability with age and in contrary almost no differences between men and women.

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AutomationCerebral ArteriesHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedTomography, X-Ray ComputedComputer-aided assessment of geometry of cerebral vesselsGeometry of cerebral vessels

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