Semi-automated intracranial aneurysm segmentation and neck detection

dentification of the neck of unruptured intracranial aneurysms is essential for quantitative analysis and monitoring of disease progression. Given a limited number of available tools for neck detection and measurements, physicians have little choices when it comes to producing clinically accurate metrics. This research presents a novel method of aneurysm neck detection based on semi-automated segmentation of aneurysm and its associated vessels. The reported aneurysm segmentation method utilizes LOGISMOS-JEI1 as its foundation to form a novel global-optimality-guaranteeing strategy for quantitative analysis of aneurysm morphology.