Extracellular matrix directions estimation of the heart on micro-focus x-ray CT volumes

Hirohisa Oda; Masahiro Oda; Takayuki Kitasaka; Toshiaki Akita M.D.; Kensaku Mori

doi:10.1117/12.2254949

13 March 2017 Extracellular matrix directions estimation of the heart on micro-focus x-ray CT volumes

Hirohisa Oda, Masahiro Oda, Takayuki Kitasaka, Toshiaki Akita M.D., Kensaku Mori

Proceedings Volume 10137, Medical Imaging 2017: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging; 101370M (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254949
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2017, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

In this paper we propose an estimation method of extracellular matrix directions of the heart. Myofiber are surrounded by the myocardial cell sheets whose directions have strong correspondence between heart failure. Estimation of the myocardial cell sheet directions is difficult since they are very thin. Therefore, we estimate the extracellular matrices which are touching to the sheets as if piled up. First, we perform a segmentation of the extracellular matrices by using the Hessian analysis. Each extracellular matrix region has sheet-like shape. We estimate the direction of each extracellular matrix region by the principal component analysis (PCA). In our experiments, mean inclination angles of two normal canine hearts were 50.6 and 46.2 degrees, while the angle of a failing canine heart was 57.4 degrees. This results well fit the anatomical knowledge that failing hearts tend to have vertical myocardical cell sheets.

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Hirohisa Oda, Masahiro Oda, Takayuki Kitasaka, Toshiaki Akita M.D., and Kensaku Mori "Extracellular matrix directions estimation of the heart on micro-focus x-ray CT volumes", Proc. SPIE 10137, Medical Imaging 2017: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, 101370M (13 March 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254949

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