@Article{DeboraGil2019,
author="Debora Gil
and Carles Sanchez
and Agnes Borras
and Marta Diez-Ferrer
and Antoni Rosell",
title="Segmentation of Distal Airways using Structural Analysis",
journal="PloS one",
year="2019",
volume="14",
number="12",
abstract="Segmentation of airways in Computed Tomography (CT) scans is a must for accurate support of diagnosis and intervention of many pulmonary disorders. In particular, lung cancer diagnosis would benefit from segmentations reaching most distal airways. We present a method that combines descriptors of bronchi local appearance and graph global structural analysis to fine-tune thresholds on the descriptors adapted for each bronchial level. We have compared our method to the top performers of the EXACT09 challenge and to a commercial software for biopsy planning evaluated in an own-collected data-base of high resolution CT scans acquired under different breathing conditions. Results on EXACT09 data show that our method provides a high leakage reduction with minimum loss in airway detection. Results on our data-base show the reliability across varying breathing conditions and a competitive performance for biopsy planning compared to a commercial solution.",
optnote="IAM; 600.139; 600.145",
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doi="10.1371/journal.pone.0226006",
opturl="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0226006",
file=":http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/files/GSB2019.pdf:PDF"
}