3-D Reconstruction of Coronary Arteries from multiple different Angiographic views – A survey

Abstract

3D-Re-construction of the coronary artery vessel of the X-Ray angiography image is one of the useful technique that can effectively remedy the shortage angiographies imaging technique. Many publications can be found in the literature that present algorithms and techniques for coronary arteries reconstruction in angiograms. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is not any survey classify and do comprehensive comparative for all of them in one paper. In this paper, techniques have been divided into two main basic categories and propose a review for the geometric model. We studied all the papers in the geometric model and found there are two classifications: (1) based on methods, which has subdivided into (a) Epipolar Constraint Methods (ECM). (b) Deformable-Model-Based Methods (DMM). (2) Based on input data, which has also subdivided into (a) calibrated data. (b) un-calibrated data. Finally, we made three tables, the first table was to compare all techniques in each class against criteria like angiography types, the number of image view, Use phantom data, shape coronary artery output, whole tree output, and software implementation. The second table was to brief geometric model Methods description, Advantages, and Disadvantages. Moreover, the last table was to brief description of angiography types, Advantages, and Disadvantages