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New TopoField framework improves pulmonary tree modeling from CT scans

Researchers have developed TopoField, a novel framework designed to address topological incompleteness in pulmonary trees extracted from CT scans. This implicit modeling approach treats topology repair as a primary task, enabling unified inference for anatomical labeling and lung segment reconstruction. TopoField demonstrates significant improvements in topological completeness and accuracy, even when applied to incomplete outputs from external segmentation models, offering a computationally efficient solution for clinical applications. AI

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New TopoField framework improves pulmonary tree modeling from CT scans

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Ziqiao Weng, Jiancheng Yang, Kangxian Xie, Bo Zhou, Weidong Cai ·

    Learning Topology-Aware Implicit Field for Unified Pulmonary Tree Modeling with Incomplete Topological Supervision

    arXiv:2602.02186v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Pulmonary trees extracted from CT images frequently exhibit topological incompleteness, such as missing or disconnected branches, which substantially degrades downstream anatomical analysis and limits the applicability of existi…