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 cerebral artery and vein segmentation


Cerebral Artery and Vein Segmentation in Four-dimensional CT Angiography Using Convolutional Neural Networks

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To implement and test a deep learning approach for the segmentation of the arterial and venous cerebral vasculature with four-dimensional (4D) CT angiography. Patients who had undergone 4D CT angiography for the suspicion of acute ischemic stroke were retrospectively identified. A total of 390 patients evaluated in 2014 (n 113) or 2018 (n 277) were included in this study, with each patient having undergone one 4D CT angiographic scan. One hundred patients from 2014 were randomly selected, and the arteries and veins on their CT scans were manually annotated by five experienced observers. The weighted temporal average and weighted temporal variance from 4D CT angiography were used as input for a three-dimensional Dense-U-Net.