Extraction of airways from CT (EXACT’09)

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Extraction of airways from CT (EXACT’09). / Lo, Pechin Chien Pau; Ginneken, Bram van; Reinhardt, Joseph M.; Yavarna, Tarunashree; Jong, Pim A. de; Irving, Benjamin; Fetita, Catalin; Ortner, Margarete; Pinho, Rômulo; Sijbers, Jan; Feuerstein, Marco; Fabijanska, Anna; Bauer, Christian; Beichel, Reinhard; Mendoza, Carlos S.; Wiemker, Rafael; Lee, Jaesung; Reeves, Anthony P.; Born, Silvia; Weinheimer, Oliver; Rikxoort, Eva M. van; Tschirren, Juerg; Mori, Ken; Odry, Benjamin; Naidich, David P.; Hartmann, Ieneke; Hoffman, Eric A.; Prokop, Mathias; Pedersen, Jesper H.; de Bruijne, Marleen.

In: I E E E Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 31, No. 11, 2012, p. 2093-2107.

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Lo, PCP, Ginneken, BV, Reinhardt, JM, Yavarna, T, Jong, PAD, Irving, B, Fetita, C, Ortner, M, Pinho, R, Sijbers, J, Feuerstein, M, Fabijanska, A, Bauer, C, Beichel, R, Mendoza, CS, Wiemker, R, Lee, J, Reeves, AP, Born, S, Weinheimer, O, Rikxoort, EMV, Tschirren, J, Mori, K, Odry, B, Naidich, DP, Hartmann, I, Hoffman, EA, Prokop, M, Pedersen, JH & de Bruijne, M 2012, 'Extraction of airways from CT (EXACT’09)', I E E E Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 31, no. 11, pp. 2093-2107. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2012.2209674

APA

Lo, P. C. P., Ginneken, B. V., Reinhardt, J. M., Yavarna, T., Jong, P. A. D., Irving, B., Fetita, C., Ortner, M., Pinho, R., Sijbers, J., Feuerstein, M., Fabijanska, A., Bauer, C., Beichel, R., Mendoza, C. S., Wiemker, R., Lee, J., Reeves, A. P., Born, S., ... de Bruijne, M. (2012). Extraction of airways from CT (EXACT’09). I E E E Transactions on Medical Imaging, 31(11), 2093-2107. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2012.2209674

Vancouver

Lo PCP, Ginneken BV, Reinhardt JM, Yavarna T, Jong PAD, Irving B et al. Extraction of airways from CT (EXACT’09). I E E E Transactions on Medical Imaging. 2012;31(11):2093-2107. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2012.2209674

Author

Lo, Pechin Chien Pau ; Ginneken, Bram van ; Reinhardt, Joseph M. ; Yavarna, Tarunashree ; Jong, Pim A. de ; Irving, Benjamin ; Fetita, Catalin ; Ortner, Margarete ; Pinho, Rômulo ; Sijbers, Jan ; Feuerstein, Marco ; Fabijanska, Anna ; Bauer, Christian ; Beichel, Reinhard ; Mendoza, Carlos S. ; Wiemker, Rafael ; Lee, Jaesung ; Reeves, Anthony P. ; Born, Silvia ; Weinheimer, Oliver ; Rikxoort, Eva M. van ; Tschirren, Juerg ; Mori, Ken ; Odry, Benjamin ; Naidich, David P. ; Hartmann, Ieneke ; Hoffman, Eric A. ; Prokop, Mathias ; Pedersen, Jesper H. ; de Bruijne, Marleen. / Extraction of airways from CT (EXACT’09). In: I E E E Transactions on Medical Imaging. 2012 ; Vol. 31, No. 11. pp. 2093-2107.

Bibtex

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title = "Extraction of airways from CT (EXACT{\textquoteright}09)",
abstract = "This paper describes a framework for establishing areference airway tree segmentation, which was used to quantitativelyevaluate 15 different airway tree extraction algorithms ina standardized manner. Because of the sheer difficulty involvedin manually constructing a complete reference standard fromscratch, we propose to construct the reference using results fromall algorithms that are to be evaluated. We start by subdividingeach segmented airway tree into its individual branch segments.Each branch segment is then visually scored by trained observersto determine whether or not it is a correctly segmented part of theairway tree. Finally, the reference airway trees are constructed bytaking the union of all correctly extracted branch segments. Fifteenairway tree extraction algorithms from different research groupsare evaluated on a diverse set of 20 chest computed tomography(CT) scans of subjects ranging from healthy volunteers to patientswith severe pathologies, scanned at different sites, with differentCT scanner brands, models, and scanning protocols. Three performancemeasures covering different aspects of segmentationquality were computed for all participating algorithms. Resultsfrom the evaluation showed that no single algorithm could extractmore than an average of 74% of the total length of all branches inthe reference standard, indicating substantial differences between the algorithms. A fusion scheme that obtained superior results ispresented, demonstrating that there is complementary informationprovided by the different algorithms and there is still roomfor further improvements in airway segmentation algorithms.",
author = "Lo, {Pechin Chien Pau} and Ginneken, {Bram van} and Reinhardt, {Joseph M.} and Tarunashree Yavarna and Jong, {Pim A. de} and Benjamin Irving and Catalin Fetita and Margarete Ortner and R{\^o}mulo Pinho and Jan Sijbers and Marco Feuerstein and Anna Fabijanska and Christian Bauer and Reinhard Beichel and Mendoza, {Carlos S.} and Rafael Wiemker and Jaesung Lee and Reeves, {Anthony P.} and Silvia Born and Oliver Weinheimer and Rikxoort, {Eva M. van} and Juerg Tschirren and Ken Mori and Benjamin Odry and Naidich, {David P.} and Ieneke Hartmann and Hoffman, {Eric A.} and Mathias Prokop and Pedersen, {Jesper H.} and {de Bruijne}, Marleen",
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T1 - Extraction of airways from CT (EXACT’09)

AU - Lo, Pechin Chien Pau

AU - Ginneken, Bram van

AU - Reinhardt, Joseph M.

AU - Yavarna, Tarunashree

AU - Jong, Pim A. de

AU - Irving, Benjamin

AU - Fetita, Catalin

AU - Ortner, Margarete

AU - Pinho, Rômulo

AU - Sijbers, Jan

AU - Feuerstein, Marco

AU - Fabijanska, Anna

AU - Bauer, Christian

AU - Beichel, Reinhard

AU - Mendoza, Carlos S.

AU - Wiemker, Rafael

AU - Lee, Jaesung

AU - Reeves, Anthony P.

AU - Born, Silvia

AU - Weinheimer, Oliver

AU - Rikxoort, Eva M. van

AU - Tschirren, Juerg

AU - Mori, Ken

AU - Odry, Benjamin

AU - Naidich, David P.

AU - Hartmann, Ieneke

AU - Hoffman, Eric A.

AU - Prokop, Mathias

AU - Pedersen, Jesper H.

AU - de Bruijne, Marleen

PY - 2012

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N2 - This paper describes a framework for establishing areference airway tree segmentation, which was used to quantitativelyevaluate 15 different airway tree extraction algorithms ina standardized manner. Because of the sheer difficulty involvedin manually constructing a complete reference standard fromscratch, we propose to construct the reference using results fromall algorithms that are to be evaluated. We start by subdividingeach segmented airway tree into its individual branch segments.Each branch segment is then visually scored by trained observersto determine whether or not it is a correctly segmented part of theairway tree. Finally, the reference airway trees are constructed bytaking the union of all correctly extracted branch segments. Fifteenairway tree extraction algorithms from different research groupsare evaluated on a diverse set of 20 chest computed tomography(CT) scans of subjects ranging from healthy volunteers to patientswith severe pathologies, scanned at different sites, with differentCT scanner brands, models, and scanning protocols. Three performancemeasures covering different aspects of segmentationquality were computed for all participating algorithms. Resultsfrom the evaluation showed that no single algorithm could extractmore than an average of 74% of the total length of all branches inthe reference standard, indicating substantial differences between the algorithms. A fusion scheme that obtained superior results ispresented, demonstrating that there is complementary informationprovided by the different algorithms and there is still roomfor further improvements in airway segmentation algorithms.

AB - This paper describes a framework for establishing areference airway tree segmentation, which was used to quantitativelyevaluate 15 different airway tree extraction algorithms ina standardized manner. Because of the sheer difficulty involvedin manually constructing a complete reference standard fromscratch, we propose to construct the reference using results fromall algorithms that are to be evaluated. We start by subdividingeach segmented airway tree into its individual branch segments.Each branch segment is then visually scored by trained observersto determine whether or not it is a correctly segmented part of theairway tree. Finally, the reference airway trees are constructed bytaking the union of all correctly extracted branch segments. Fifteenairway tree extraction algorithms from different research groupsare evaluated on a diverse set of 20 chest computed tomography(CT) scans of subjects ranging from healthy volunteers to patientswith severe pathologies, scanned at different sites, with differentCT scanner brands, models, and scanning protocols. Three performancemeasures covering different aspects of segmentationquality were computed for all participating algorithms. Resultsfrom the evaluation showed that no single algorithm could extractmore than an average of 74% of the total length of all branches inthe reference standard, indicating substantial differences between the algorithms. A fusion scheme that obtained superior results ispresented, demonstrating that there is complementary informationprovided by the different algorithms and there is still roomfor further improvements in airway segmentation algorithms.

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DO - 10.1109/TMI.2012.2209674

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VL - 31

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JO - I E E E Transactions on Medical Imaging

JF - I E E E Transactions on Medical Imaging

SN - 0278-0062

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