How to cite PTK

Main citations

If you use this software for a publication, please cite the following, as appropriate

Lobe segmentation:

Doel, T.; Matin, T.N.; Gleeson, F.V.; Gavaghan, D.J.; Grau, V., Pulmonary lobe segmentation from CT images using fissureness, airways, vessels and multilevel B-splines. Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2012 9th IEEE International Symposium on , vol., no., pp.1491-1494, 2-5 May 2012. doi: 10.1109/ISBI.2012.6235854

Multimodal analysis:

Tahreema N. Matin, Najib Rahman, Annabel H. Nickol, Mitchell Chen, Xiaojun Xu, Neil J. Stewart, Tom Doel, Vicente Grau, James M. Wild, and Fergus V. Gleeson. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Lobar Analysis with Hyperpolarized 129Xe MR Imaging Radiology 2017 282:3, 857-868 https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.2016152299

Airway, lung and lobe analysis and modelling:

KS Burrowes‚ T Doel‚ M Kim‚ C Vargas‚ J Roca‚ V Grau and D Kay: A combined image-modelling approach assessing the impact of hyperinflation due to emphysema on regional ventilation–perfusion matching. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization 04/2015; DOI: 10.1080/21681163.2015.1023358

Burrowes KS, Doel T, Brightling C. Computational modeling of the obstructive lung diseases asthma and COPD. Journal of Translational Medicine. 2014;12(Suppl 2):S5. doi:10.1186/1479-5876-12-S2-S5.

Other Citations

Other algorithms used in the code

Registration:

Cahill, N.D., Noble, J.A., Hawkes, D.J., Ray, L.A.: Fast fluid registration with Dirichlet boundary conditions: a transform-based approach. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 712-715 (2007).

Vesselness:

Frangi, A., Niessen, W.J., Vincken, K., Viergever, M.A.: Multiscale vessel enhancement filtering. Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention 1496, 130-137 (1998).

Watershed algorithm:

Vincent, L., Soille, P.: Watersheds in digital spaces: an efficient algorithm based on immersion simulations. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 13(6), 583-598 (1991).

Multilevel B-splines:

S. Lee, G. Wolberg, and S. Y. Shin. Scattered data interpolation with multilevel B-splines. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 3(3):229–244, 1997.