Tracheal Structure Characterization using Geometric and Appearance Models for Efficient Assessment of Stenosis in Videobronchoscopy
Sánchez Ramos, Carles (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Ciències de la Computació)

Data:	2015
Resum:	Recent advances in endoscopic devices have increased their use for minimal invasive diagnostic and intervention procedures. Among all endoscopic modalities, bronchoscopy is one of the most frequent with around 261 millions of procedures per year. Although the use of bronchoscopy is spread among clinical facilities it presents some drawbacks, being the visual inspection for the assessment of anatomical measurements the most prevalent of them. In particular, inaccuracies in the estimation of the degree of stenosis (the percentage of obstructed airway) decreases its diagnostic yield and might lead to erroneous treatments. An objective computation of tracheal stenosis in bronchoscopy videos would constitute a breakthrough for this non-invasive technique and a reduction in treatment cost. This thesis settles the first steps towards on-line reliable extraction of anatomical information from videobronchoscopy for computation of objective measures. In particular, we focus on the computation of the degree of stenosis, which is obtained by comparing the area delimited by a healthy tracheal ring and the stenosed lumen. In this sense, we have to consider that reliable extraction of airway structures in interventional videobronchoscopy is a challenging task. This is mainly due to the large variety of acquisition conditions (positions and illumination), devices (different digitalizations) and in videosacquired at the operating room the unpredicted presence of surgical devices (such as probe ends). This thesis contributes to on-line stenosis assessment in several ways. We propose a parametric strategy for the extraction of lumen and tracheal rings regions based on the characterization of their geometry and appearance that guide a deformable model. The geometric and appearance characterization is based on a physical model describing the way bronchoscopy images are obtained and includes local and global descriptions. In order to ensure a systematic applicability we present a statistical framework to select the optimal parameters of our method. Experiments perform on the first public annotated database, show that the performance of our method is comparable to the one provided by clinicians and its computation time allows for a on-line implementation in the operating room.
Nota:	Advisor/s: F. Javier Sánchez, Debora Gil and Jorge Bernal. Date and location of PhD thesis defense: 16 December 2014, Autonomous University of Barcelona
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Altres ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Bronchoscopy ; Stenosis assessment ; Parameter setting ; ANOVA
Publicat a:	ELCVIA : Electronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis, Vol. 14 Núm. 3 (2015) , p. 29-30 (Special Issue on Recent PhD Thesis Dissemination (2014)) , ISSN 1577-5097

Adreça original: https://elcvia.cvc.uab.es/article/view/v14-n3-sanchez
Adreça alternativa: https://raco.cat/index.php/ELCVIA/article/view/v14-n3-sanchez
DOI: 10.5565/rev/elcvia.720

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