arXiv:2510.13720cs.CV2025-10被引 2

构建脑底动脉环中心线图数据集,提升血管网络量化分析精度。

Circle of Willis Centerline Graphs: A Dataset and Baseline Algorithm

  • 基于U-Net与A*算法融合,实现高精度中心线图生成。
  • 拓扑重建F1达1.0,节点误差低于1像素,特征误差低于5%。
  • 适合血管建模、神经影像分析及临床病理研究者使用。

脑底动脉环(CoW)是大脑关键的动脉网络,常与脑血管疾病相关。体素级分割是自动化评估的第一步,但定量分析需依赖中心线表示。传统骨架化方法因结构复杂难以提取可靠中心线,且公开中心线数据集稀缺。为此,我们基于细化算法从包含200例卒中患者、经MRA和CTA成像的TopCoW数据集提取并标注中心线图与形态特征。据此开发了一种基准算法,结合U-Net骨架化与A*图连接。在独立测试集上评估了解剖准确性与特征鲁棒性。结果表明,该算法拓扑重建F1值为1.0,参考与预测图间平均欧氏节点距离低于1个体素;段半径、长度及分叉比等特征相对误差中位数低于5%,皮尔逊相关系数高于0.95。研究验证了学习型骨架化与图连接在生成解剖合理中心线方面的有效性。强调应超越简单体素度量,关注解剖准确性和特征稳定性。数据集与基准算法已公开,以支持后续方法研发与临床研究。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The Circle of Willis (CoW) is a critical network of arteries in the brain, often implicated in cerebrovascular pathologies. Voxel-level segmentation is an important first step toward an automated CoW assessment, but a full quantitative analysis requires centerline representations. However, conventional skeletonization techniques often struggle to extract reliable centerlines due to the CoW's complex geometry, and publicly available centerline datasets remain scarce. To address these challenges, we used a thinning-based skeletonization algorithm to extract and curate centerline graphs and morphometric features from the TopCoW dataset, which includes 200 stroke patients, each imaged with MRA and CTA. The curated graphs were used to develop a baseline algorithm for centerline and feature extraction, combining U-Net-based skeletonization with A* graph connection. Performance was evaluated on a held-out test set, focusing on anatomical accuracy and feature robustness. Further, we used the extracted features to predict the frequency of fetal PCA variants, confirm theoretical bifurcation optimality relations, and detect subtle modality differences. The baseline algorithm consistently reconstructed graph topology with high accuracy (F1 = 1), and the average Euclidean node distance between reference and predicted graphs was below one voxel. Features such as segment radius, length, and bifurcation ratios showed strong robustness, with median relative errors below 5% and Pearson correlations above 0.95. Our results demonstrate the utility of learning-based skeletonization combined with graph connection for anatomically plausible centerline extraction. We emphasize the importance of going beyond simple voxel-based measures by evaluating anatomical accuracy and feature robustness. The dataset and baseline algorithm have been released to support further method development and clinical research.

血管建模中心线提取医学图像数据集

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