Going Off-Grid: Continuous Implicit Neural Representations for 3D Vascular Modeling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.14663v1
• Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 13:08:35 GMT
• Title: Going Off-Grid: Continuous Implicit Neural Representations for 3D Vascular Modeling
• Authors: Dieuwertje Alblas, Christoph Brune, Kak Khee Yeung, Jelmer M. Wolterink
• Abstract summary: Personalised 3D vascular models are valuable for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment planning in patients with cardiovascular disease. Traditionally, such models have been constructed with explicit representations such as meshes and voxel masks. Here, we propose to represent surfaces by the zero level set of their signed distance function in a differentiable implicit neural representation (INR) This allows us to model complex vascular structures with a representation that is implicit, continuous, light-weight, and easy to integrate with deep learning algorithms.
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• Abstract: Personalised 3D vascular models are valuable for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment planning in patients with cardiovascular disease. Traditionally, such models have been constructed with explicit representations such as meshes and voxel masks, or implicit representations such as radial basis functions or atomic (tubular) shapes. Here, we propose to represent surfaces by the zero level set of their signed distance function (SDF) in a differentiable implicit neural representation (INR). This allows us to model complex vascular structures with a representation that is implicit, continuous, light-weight, and easy to integrate with deep learning algorithms. We here demonstrate the potential of this approach with three practical examples. First, we obtain an accurate and watertight surface for an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) from CT images and show robust fitting from as little as 200 points on the surface. Second, we simultaneously fit nested vessel walls in a single INR without intersections. Third, we show how 3D models of individual arteries can be smoothly blended into a single watertight surface. Our results show that INRs are a flexible representation with potential for minimally interactive annotation and manipulation of complex vascular structures.

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