Multi-task global optimization-based method for vascular landmark detection

Zimeng Tan, Jianjiang Feng, Wangsheng Lu, Yin Yin, Guangming Yang, Jie Zhou

Abstract: Highlights•End-to-end deep-learning based method for vascular landmark detection.•Multi-task network to incorporate structural prior information.•Global optimization-based post-processing algorithm for landmark decision.•A new evaluation metric to evaluate topological errors in landmark detection task.•Experiments on datasets with different vascular structures and imaging modalities.