Techniques and algorithms for hepatic vessel skeletonization in medical images: A survey

J Zhang, F Wu, W Chang, D Kong - Entropy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Hepatic vessel skeletonization serves as an important means of hepatic vascular analysis
and vessel segmentation. This paper presents a survey of techniques and algorithms for …

Three-way decision support for diagnosis on focal liver lesions

Y Chen, X Yue, H Fujita, S Fu - Knowledge-based systems, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Malignant Focal Liver Lesion (FLL) is a main cause of primary liver cancer. In most
existing Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems of FLLs, machine learning and data …

Automatic segmentation methods for liver and hepatic vessels from CT and MRI volumes, applied to the Couinaud scheme

MA Lebre, A Vacavant, M Grand-Brochier… - Computers in biology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Proper segmentation of the liver from medical images is critical for computer-
assisted diagnosis, therapy and surgical planning. Knowledge of its vascular structure …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in computerized imaging and its vital roles in liver disease diagnosis, preoperative planning, and interventional liver surgery: A review

P Horkaew, J Chansangrat… - World Journal of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The earliest and most accurate detection of the pathological manifestations of hepatic
diseases ensures effective treatments and thus positive prognostic outcomes. In clinical …

Automatic CT liver Couinaud segmentation based on key bifurcation detection with attentive residual hourglass-based cascaded network

M Wang, R Jin, J Lu, E Song, G Ma - Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents an automatic Couinaud segmentation method based on deep learning
of key point detection. Assuming that the liver mask has been extracted, the proposed …

Automated segmentation of liver segment on portal venous phase MR images using a 3D convolutional neural network

X Han, X Wu, S Wang, L Xu, H Xu, D Zheng, N Yu… - Insights Into …, 2022 - Springer
Objective We aim to develop and validate a three-dimensional convolutional neural network
(3D-CNN) model for automatic liver segment segmentation on MRI images. Methods This …

[HTML][HTML] Deep learning for fully automated segmentation and volumetry of couinaud liver segments and future liver remnants shown with CT before major hepatectomy …

T Xie, Y Li, Z Lin, X Liu, X Zhang, Y Zhang… - … Imaging in Medicine …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Recent reports have shown the potential for deep learning (DL) models to
automatically segment of Couinaud liver segments and future liver remnant (FLR) for liver …

Functional segmentation for preoperative liver resection based on hepatic vascular networks

DC Le, J Chansangrat, N Keeratibharat… - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Successful liver resection relies on accurate estimation of future liver remnant volume
(FLRV). According to Couinaud's scheme, a liver is composed of eight functionally …

Balancing the data term of graph-cuts algorithm to improve segmentation of hepatic vascular structures

N Sangsefidi, AH Foruzan, A Dolati - Computers in biology and medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
Purpose The accurate delineation of hepatic vessels is important to diagnosis and treatment
planning. To improve the segmentation of these vessels and extract small structures, we …

Fully-automated functional region annotation of liver via a 2.5 D class-aware deep neural network with spatial adaptation

Y Tian, F Xue, R Lambo, J He, C An, Y Xie… - Computer Methods and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and Objective Automatic functional region annotation of liver should be
very useful for preoperative planning of liver resection in the clinical domain. However, many …