@article{PimentelSzengelEhlkeetal., author = {Pimentel, Pedro and Szengel, Angelika and Ehlke, Moritz and Lamecker, Hans and Zachow, Stefan and Estacio, Laura and Doenitz, Christian and Ramm, Heiko}, title = {Automated Virtual Reconstruction of Large Skull Defects using Statistical Shape Models and Generative Adversarial Networks}, series = {Towards the Automatization of Cranial Implant Design in Cranioplasty}, volume = {12439}, journal = {Towards the Automatization of Cranial Implant Design in Cranioplasty}, editor = {Li, Jianning and Egger, Jan}, edition = {1}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-64327-0_3}, pages = {16 -- 27}, abstract = {We present an automated method for extrapolating missing regions in label data of the skull in an anatomically plausible manner. The ultimate goal is to design patient-speci� c cranial implants for correcting large, arbitrarily shaped defects of the skull that can, for example, result from trauma of the head. Our approach utilizes a 3D statistical shape model (SSM) of the skull and a 2D generative adversarial network (GAN) that is trained in an unsupervised fashion from samples of healthy patients alone. By � tting the SSM to given input labels containing the skull defect, a First approximation of the healthy state of the patient is obtained. The GAN is then applied to further correct and smooth the output of the SSM in an anatomically plausible manner. Finally, the defect region is extracted using morphological operations and subtraction between the extrapolated healthy state of the patient and the defective input labels. The method is trained and evaluated based on data from the MICCAI 2020 AutoImplant challenge. It produces state-of-the art results on regularly shaped cut-outs that were present in the training and testing data of the challenge. Furthermore, due to unsupervised nature of the approach, the method generalizes well to previously unseen defects of varying shapes that were only present in the hidden test dataset.}, language = {en} } @article{BrueningHildebrandtHepptetal., author = {Br{\"u}ning, Jan and Hildebrandt, Thomas and Heppt, Werner and Schmidt, Nora and Lamecker, Hans and Szengel, Angelika and Amiridze, Natalja and Ramm, Heiko and Bindernagel, Matthias and Zachow, Stefan and Goubergrits, Leonid}, title = {Characterization of the Airflow within an Average Geometry of the Healthy Human Nasal Cavity}, series = {Scientific Reports}, volume = {3755}, journal = {Scientific Reports}, number = {10}, doi = {10.1038/s41598-020-60755-3}, abstract = {This study's objective was the generation of a standardized geometry of the healthy nasal cavity. An average geometry of the healthy nasal cavity was generated using a statistical shape model based on 25 symptom-free subjects. Airflow within the average geometry and these geometries was calculated using fluid simulations. Integral measures of the nasal resistance, wall shear stresses (WSS) and velocities were calculated as well as cross-sectional areas (CSA). Furthermore, individual WSS and static pressure distributions were mapped onto the average geometry. The average geometry featured an overall more regular shape that resulted in less resistance, reduced wall shear stresses and velocities compared to the median of the 25 geometries. Spatial distributions of WSS and pressure of average geometry agreed well compared to the average distributions of all individual geometries. The minimal CSA of the average geometry was larger than the median of all individual geometries (83.4 vs. 74.7 mm²). The airflow observed within the average geometry of the healthy nasal cavity did not equal the average airflow of the individual geometries. While differences observed for integral measures were notable, the calculated values for the average geometry lay within the distributions of the individual parameters. Spatially resolved parameters differed less prominently.}, language = {en} } @article{SekuboyinaBayatHusseinietal., author = {Sekuboyina, Anjany and Bayat, Amirhossein and Husseini, Malek E. and L{\"o}ffler, Maximilian and Li, Hongwei and Tetteh, Giles and Kukačka, Jan and Payer, Christian and Štern, Darko and Urschler, Martin and Chen, Maodong and Cheng, Dalong and Lessmann, Nikolas and Hu, Yujin and Wang, Tianfu and Yang, Dong and Xu, Daguang and Ambellan, Felix and Amiranashvili, Tamaz and Ehlke, Moritz and Lamecker, Hans and Lehnert, Sebastian and Lirio, Marilia and de Olaguer, Nicol{\´a}s P{\´e}rez and Ramm, Heiko and Sahu, Manish and Tack, Alexander and Zachow, Stefan and Jiang, Tao and Ma, Xinjun and Angerman, Christoph and Wang, Xin and Wei, Qingyue and Brown, Kevin and Wolf, Matthias and Kirszenberg, Alexandre and Puybareau, {\´E}lodie and Valentinitsch, Alexander and Rempfler, Markus and Menze, Bj{\"o}rn H. and Kirschke, Jan S.}, title = {VerSe: A Vertebrae Labelling and Segmentation Benchmark for Multi-detector CT Images}, series = {arXiv}, journal = {arXiv}, language = {en} }