Ori-Net: Orientation-guided Neural Network for Automated Coronary Arteries Segmentation

Weili Jiang, Yiming Li, Yuheng Jia, Yuan Feng, Zhang Yi, Mao Chen, Jianyong Wang

Abstract: Highlights•The topological prior of the coronary artery is integrated into segmentation model.•Orientation-guided tracking method improves the segmentation significantly.•Connected component ratio metric is proposed to evaluate the volume connectivity.•Comprehensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed Ori-Net.