Validation of the Gatortail method for accurate sizing of pulmonary vessels from 3D medical images

Purpose Detailed characterization of changes in vessel size is crucial for the diagnosis and management of a variety of vascular diseases. Because clinical measurement of vessel size is typically dependent on the radiologist's subjective interpretation of the vessel borders, it is often prone to high inter‐ and intra‐user variability. Automatic methods of vessel sizing have been developed for two‐dimensional images but a fully three‐dimensional...