Smooth vasculature reconstruction with circular and elliptic cross sections.
This paper presents a method to segment and reconstruct vascular structure from patient volumetric scan. First, a semi-automatic segmentation phase leads to the vessels centerlines and the estimated circular or elliptic cross section description. Then, the skeleton data are used by the reconstruction phase to generate the three dimensional vascular surface. This structured surface is able to handle interactive visualization, real-time and robust physics-based modeling. The accuracy and consistency of our technique are evaluated on a vascular phantom as well as two clinical data sets. Experiments show that the proposed technique reaches a good balance in terms of mesh smoothness, compactness, and accuracy, where elliptic cross section estimation induces lower error.