Abstract
Purpose
Catheter guidance is a vital task for the success of electrophysiology interventions. It is usually provided through fluoroscopic images that are taken intra-operatively. The cardiologists, who are typically equipped with C-arm systems, scan the patient from multiple views rotating the fluoroscope around one of its axes. The resulting sequences allow the cardiologists to build a mental model of the 3D position of the catheters and interest points from the multiple views.
Method
We describe and compare different 3D catheter reconstruction strategies and ultimately propose a novel and robust method for the automatic reconstruction of 3D catheters in non-synchronized fluoroscopic sequences. This approach does not purely rely on triangulation but incorporates prior knowledge about the catheters. In conjunction with an automatic detection method, we demonstrate the performance of our method compared to ground truth annotations.
Results
In our experiments that include 20 biplane datasets, we achieve an average reprojection error of 0.43 mm and an average reconstruction error of 0.67 mm compared to gold standard annotation.
Conclusions
In clinical practice, catheters suffer from complex motion due to the combined effect of heartbeat and respiratory motion. As a result, any 3D reconstruction algorithm via triangulation is imprecise. We have proposed a new method that is fully automatic and highly accurate to reconstruct catheters in three dimensions.







Similar content being viewed by others
References
Baert SAM, Van De Kraats EB, van Walsum T, Viergever M, Niessen WJ (2003) Three-dimensional guide-wire reconstruction from biplane image sequences for integrated display in 3-D vasculature. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 22(10):1252–1258
Belagiannis V, Amin S, Andriluka M, Schiele B, Navab N, Ilic S (2014) 3D pictorial structures for multiple human pose estimation. In: Computer vision and pattern recognition (CVPR), IEEE conference on, pp 1669–1676
Bender H-J, Männer R, Poliwoda C, Roth S, Walz M (1999) Reconstruction of 3D catheter paths from 2D X-ray projections. In: Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention-MICCAI’99. Springer, Berlin, pp 981–989
Bourier F, Fahrig R, Wang P, Santangeli P, Kurzidim K, Strobel N, Moore T, Hinkel C, Al-Ahmad A (2014) Accuracy assessment of catheter guidance technology in electrophysiology procedures. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 25(1):74–83
Brückner M, Deinzer F, Denzler J (2009) Temporal estimation of the 3D guide-wire position using 2D X-ray images. In: Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention-MICCAI. Springer, Berlin, pp 386–393
Fallavollita P (2009) 3D/2D registration of mapping catheter images for arrhythmia interventional assistance. Int J Comput Sci Issues (IJCSI) 4(2):10–19
Fallavollita P (2010) 2D/3D registration using only single-view fluoroscopy to guide cardiac ablation procedures: a feasibility study. In: SPIE medical imaging. International Society for Optics and Photonics, pp 76252Z–76252Z
Fallavollita P (2010) Acquiring multiview c-arm images to assist cardiac ablation procedures. J Image Video Process 3
Fallavollita P (2010) Is single-view fluoroscopy sufficient in guiding cardiac ablation procedures? J Biomed Imag 1
Fallavollita P (2012) The future of cardiac mapping. INTECH
Fallavollita P (2014) Detection, tracking and related costs of ablation catheters in the treatment of cardiac Arrhythmias
Hoffmann M, Brost A, Jakob C, Bourier F, Koch M, Kurzidim K, Hornegger J, Strobel N (2012) Semi-automatic catheter reconstruction from two views. In: Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention-MICCAI. Springer, Berlin, pp 584–591
Hoffmann M, Brost A, Jakob C, Koch M, Bourier F, Kurzidim K, Hornegger J, Strobel N (2013) Reconstruction method for curvilinear structures from two views. In: SPIE medical imaging. International Society for Optics and Photonics, pp 86712F–86712F
Jarman JWE, Panikker S, Das M, Wynn GJ, Ullah W, Kontogeorgis A, Haldar SK (2015) Relationship between contact force sensing technology and medium-term outcome of atrial fibrillation ablation: a multicenter study of 600 patients. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 26(4):378–384
Ma YL, Gogin N, Cathier P, Housden RJ, Gijsbers G, Cooklin M, O’Neill M (2013) Real-time X-ray fluoroscopy-based catheter detection and tracking for cardiac electrophysiology interventions. Med Phys 40(7):071902
Milletari F, Belagiannis V, Navab N, Fallavollita P (2014) Fully automatic catheter localization in C-arm images using \(\ell \) 1-sparse coding. In: Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention-MICCAI. Springer International Publishing, pp 570–577
Milletari F, Navab N, Fallavollita P (2013) Automatic detection of multiple and overlapping EP catheters in fluoroscopic sequences. In: Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention-MICCAI. Springer, Berlin, pp 371–379
Papalazarou C, Rongen PMJ, De With PHN (2010) Surgical needle reconstruction using small-angle multi-view X-ray. In: Image processing (ICIP), 17th IEEE international conference on, pp 4193–4196
Van Walsum T, Baert SAM, Niessen WJ (2005) Guide wire reconstruction and visualization in 3DRA using monoplane fluoroscopic imaging. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 24(5):612–623
Wu W, Chen T, Strobel N, Comaniciu D (2012) Fast tracking of catheters in 2D fluoroscopic images using an integrated CPU-GPU framework. In: Biomedical imaging (ISBI), 9th IEEE international symposium on, pp 1184–1187
Yatziv L, Chartouni M, Datta S, Sapiro G (2012) Toward multiple catheters detection in fluoroscopic image guided interventions. IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed 16(4):770–781
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Baur, C., Milletari, F., Belagiannis, V. et al. Automatic 3D reconstruction of electrophysiology catheters from two-view monoplane C-arm image sequences. Int J CARS 11, 1319–1328 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-015-1325-8
Received:
Accepted:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-015-1325-8