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Efficient anatomical labeling of pulmonary tree structures via deep point-graph representation-based implicit fields

Xie, Kangxian  
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Yang, Jiancheng  
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Wei, Donglai
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January 1, 2025
Medical Image Analysis

Pulmonary diseases rank prominently among the principal causes of death worldwide. Curing them will require, among other things, a better understanding of the complex 3D tree-shaped structures within the pulmonary system, such as airways, arteries, and veins. Traditional approaches using high-resolution image stacks and standard CNNs on dense voxel grids face challenges in computational efficiency, limited resolution, local context, and inadequate preservation of shape topology. Our method addresses these issues by shifting from dense voxel to sparse point representation, offering better memory efficiency and global context utilization. However, the inherent sparsity in point representation can lead to a loss of crucial connectivity in tree-shaped structures. To mitigate this, we introduce graph learning on skeletonized structures, incorporating differentiable feature fusion for improved topology and long-distance context capture. Furthermore, we employ an implicit function for efficient conversion of sparse representations into dense reconstructions end-to-end. The proposed method not only delivers state-of-the-art performance in labeling accuracy, both overall and at key locations, but also enables efficient inference and the generation of closed surface shapes. Addressing data scarcity in this field, we have also curated a comprehensive dataset to validate our approach. Data and code are available at https://github.com/M3DV/pulmonary-tree-labeling.

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research article
DOI
10.1016/j.media.2024.103367
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85206854734

PubMed ID

39437582

Author(s)
Xie, Kangxian  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Yang, Jiancheng  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Wei, Donglai

Boston College

Weng, Ziqiao

The University of Sydney

Fua, Pascal  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Date Issued

2025-01-01

Published in
Medical Image Analysis
Volume

99

Article Number

103367

Subjects

3D deep learning

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Graph

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Implicit function

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Point cloud

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Pulmonary tree labeling

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REVIEWED

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EPFL

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CVLAB  
FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

Swiss National Science Foundation

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January 25, 2025
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/243931
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