Exploiting Reliability-Guided Aggregation for the Assessment of Curvilinear Structure Tortuosity



Su, Pan, Zhao, Yitian, Chen, Tianhua, Xie, Jianyang ORCID: 0000-0002-4565-5807, Zhao, Yifan, Qi, Hong, Zheng, Yalin ORCID: 0000-0002-7873-0922 and Liu, Jiang
(2019) Exploiting Reliability-Guided Aggregation for the Assessment of Curvilinear Structure Tortuosity. In: MEDICAL IMAGE COMPUTING AND COMPUTER ASSISTED INTERVENTION - MICCAI 2019, 2019-10-13 - 2019-10-17, Shenzhen.

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Abstract

The study on tortuosity of curvilinear structures in medical images has been significant in support of the examination and diagnosis for a number of diseases. To avoid the bias that may arise from using one particular tortuosity measurement, the simultaneous use of multiple measurements may offer a promising approach to produce a more robust overall assessment. As such, this paper proposes a data-driven approach for the automated grading of curvilinear structures’ tortuosity, where multiple morphological measurements are aggregated on the basis of reliability to form a robust overall assessment. The proposed pipeline starts dealing with the imprecision and uncertainty inherently embedded in empirical tortuosity grades, whereby a fuzzy clustering method is applied on each available measurement. The reliability of each measurement is then assessed following a nearest neighbour guided approach before the final aggregation is made. Experimental results on two corneal nerve and one retinal vessel data sets demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed method over those where measurements are used independently or aggregated using conventional averaging operators.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Unspecified)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Tortuosity assessment, Curvilinear structure, Fuzzy clustering, Reliability guided aggregation
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 08 Jun 2020 08:34
Last Modified: 18 Jan 2023 23:50
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-32251-9_2
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3089644