Synthetic Data for Blood Vessel Network Extraction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11858v1
• Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 08:29:46 GMT
• Title: Synthetic Data for Blood Vessel Network Extraction
• Authors: Joël Mathys, Andreas Plesner, Jorel Elmiger, Roger Wattenhofer,
• Abstract summary: Blood vessel networks in the brain play a crucial role in stroke research, where understanding their topology is essential.<n> extracting detailed topological vessel network information from microscopy data remains a significant challenge.<n>This work combines synthetic data generation with deep learning to automatically extract vessel networks as graphs from volumetric microscopy data.
• Score: 18.95453617434051
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Blood vessel networks in the brain play a crucial role in stroke research, where understanding their topology is essential for analyzing blood flow dynamics. However, extracting detailed topological vessel network information from microscopy data remains a significant challenge, mainly due to the scarcity of labeled training data and the need for high topological accuracy. This work combines synthetic data generation with deep learning to automatically extract vessel networks as graphs from volumetric microscopy data. To combat data scarcity, we introduce a comprehensive pipeline for generating large-scale synthetic datasets that mirror the characteristics of real vessel networks. Our three-stage approach progresses from abstract graph generation through vessel mask creation to realistic medical image synthesis, incorporating biological constraints and imaging artifacts at each stage. Using this synthetic data, we develop a two-stage deep learning pipeline of 3D U-Net-based models for node detection and edge prediction. Fine-tuning on real microscopy data shows promising adaptation, improving edge prediction F1 scores from 0.496 to 0.626 by training on merely 5 manually labeled samples. These results suggest that automated vessel network extraction is becoming practically feasible, opening new possibilities for large-scale vascular analysis in stroke research.

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