15.10.2008 MeVis Research awarded first place in coronary artery segmentation challenge at MICCAI'08

At the MICCAI'08 workshop 3D Segmentation in the Clinic: A Grand Challenge -- Coronary Artery Centerline Extraction, the MeVis Research team, consisting of Ola Friman, Caroline Kühnel and Heinz-Otto Peitgen, was awarded with the first place. In a field of 13 segmentation methods, the algorithm developed at MeVis Research had the best accuracy and overlap when compared with gold standard segmentations by human experts. Links to a paper describing the algorithm and to the competition website can be found to the right.

Link to paper:

Ola Friman, Caroline Kühnel and Heinz-Otto Peitgen
Coronary Artery Centerline Extraction using Multiple Hypothesis Tracking and Minimal Paths
http://www.midasjournal.org/browse/publication/263

Link to competition site:
http://coronary.bigr.nl/