arXiv:2412.00840eess.IVcs.CV2024-12被引 2

用深度学习自动生成血管结构化网格,30秒完成人工2小时工作。

DVasMesh: Deep Structured Mesh Reconstruction from Vascular Images for Dynamics Modeling of Vessels

  • 通过四元向量表示血管中心线点与半径,构建可学习的图结构。
  • 基于模板采样与图卷积网络,实现从图像到网格的端到端映射。
  • 相比人工标注提速6倍,适用于大规模临床血管动态模拟。

血管动力学模拟对研究血管几何与疾病进展的关系至关重要,其可靠性依赖高质量的血管网格。现有网格生成方法严重依赖人工标注,耗时费力,常出现分支合并和血管断裂等问题,制约了群体研究中的应用。为此,本文提出一种基于深度学习的端到端方法DVasMesh,直接从血管图像生成结构化六面体网格。首先,将每个血管图顶点形式化为包含中心线坐标与半径的四元向量;其次,引入向量化图模板,通过采样器依据模板顶点从分割网络提取的特征中采样;最后,利用图卷积网络(GCN)以采样特征为节点,估计模板图与目标图间的形变,并以此构建网格。该方法无需依赖标注标签,展现出在心脏和脑血管图像上生成结构化网格的优异性能,将网格生成时间从人工所需的2小时缩短至30秒,具有显著临床应用潜力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Vessel dynamics simulation is vital in studying the relationship between geometry and vascular disease progression. Reliable dynamics simulation relies on high-quality vascular meshes. Most of the existing mesh generation methods highly depend on manual annotation, which is time-consuming and laborious, usually facing challenges such as branch merging and vessel disconnection. This will hinder vessel dynamics simulation, especially for the population study. To address this issue, we propose a deep learning-based method, dubbed as DVasMesh to directly generate structured hexahedral vascular meshes from vascular images. Our contributions are threefold. First, we propose to formally formulate each vertex of the vascular graph by a four-element vector, including coordinates of the centerline point and the radius. Second, a vectorized graph template is employed to guide DVasMesh to estimate the vascular graph. Specifically, we introduce a sampling operator, which samples the extracted features of the vascular image (by a segmentation network) according to the vertices in the template graph. Third, we employ a graph convolution network (GCN) and take the sampled features as nodes to estimate the deformation between vertices of the template graph and target graph, and the deformed graph template is used to build the mesh. Taking advantage of end-to-end learning and discarding direct dependency on annotated labels, our DVasMesh demonstrates outstanding performance in generating structured vascular meshes on cardiac and cerebral vascular images. It shows great potential for clinical applications by reducing mesh generation time from 2 hours (manual) to 30 seconds (automatic).

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