Automated Cutting Plane Positioning for Intracranial Aneurysm Quantification

This is a MATLAB implementation of the journal publication:

• T. Jerman, A. Chien, F. Pernus, B. Likar, Z. Spiclin, "Automated Cutting Plane Positioning for Intracranial Aneurysm Quantification", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 67(2), p. 577-587 (2019), doi={10.1109/TBME.2019.2918921}

Input and Requirements:

• Input is a 3d mesh of the aneurysm and its parent vasculature.

• Note: the ending sections of the vasculature must be open.

• In addition to the code in this repository, the next three MATLAB toolboxes are required:

  • Toolbox Fast Marching

  • Toolbox Graph

  • Toolbox General - taken from A Numerical Tour of Signal Processing

How to run:

• See example file: examplePlaneComputation.m

• The code is divided into three main functions:

  • aneurysm center and parent vessel centerline extraction
  • extraction of aneurysm principle direction
  • positioning of aneurysm neck plane

Warning:

This code is part of a research project and is currently in an undocumented and unpolished state. Consequently, reading and interpreting the code could be highly difficult.