Al-Surmi Aqeel, Wirza Rahmita, Mahmod Ramlan, Khalid Fatimah, Dimon Mohd Zamrin
Department of Multimedia, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia.
Cardiothoracic Unit, Surgical Cluster, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia.
J Cardiothorac Surg. 2014 Oct 2;9:161. doi: 10.1186/s13019-014-0161-1.
The identification and segmentation of inhomogeneous image regions is one of the most challenging issues nowadays. The surface vessels of the human heart are important for the surgeons to locate the region where to perform the surgery and to avoid surgical injuries. In addition, such identification, segmentation, and visualisation helps novice surgeons in the training phase of cardiac surgery.
This article introduces a new mechanism for identifying the position of vessels leading to the performance of surgery by enhancement of the input image. In addition, develop a 3D vessel reconstruction out of a single-view of a real human heart colour image obtained during open-heart surgery.
Reduces the time required for locating the vessel region of interest (ROI). The vessel ROI must appear clearly for the surgeons. Furthermore, reduces the time required for training cardiac surgery of the novice surgeons. The 94.42% accuracy rate of the proposed vessel segmentation method using RGB colour space compares to other colour spaces.
The advantage of this mechanism is to help the surgeons to perform surgery in less time, avoid surgical errors, and to reduce surgical effort. Moreover, the proposed technique can reconstruct the 3D vessel model from a single image to facilitate learning of the heart anatomy as well as training of cardiac surgery for the novice surgeons. Furthermore, extensive experiments have been conducted which reveal the superior performance of the proposed mechanism compared to the state of the art methods.
非均匀图像区域的识别与分割是当今最具挑战性的问题之一。人类心脏的表面血管对于外科医生定位手术区域和避免手术损伤至关重要。此外,这种识别、分割和可视化有助于处于心脏手术训练阶段的新手外科医生。
本文介绍了一种通过增强输入图像来识别血管位置以指导手术操作的新机制。此外,从心脏直视手术期间获得的真实人类心脏彩色图像的单视图中重建三维血管。
减少了定位感兴趣血管区域(ROI)所需的时间。血管ROI必须清晰地呈现给外科医生。此外,减少了新手外科医生心脏手术训练所需的时间。与其他颜色空间相比,所提出的使用RGB颜色空间的血管分割方法准确率达到94.42%。
该机制的优点是帮助外科医生在更短的时间内进行手术,避免手术失误,并减少手术工作量。此外,所提出的技术可以从单幅图像重建三维血管模型,以方便新手外科医生学习心脏解剖结构以及进行心脏手术训练。此外,已进行的大量实验表明,与现有技术方法相比,所提出的机制具有卓越的性能。