Surface-based registration of liver in ultrasound and CT

Ehsan Dehghan; Kongkuo Lu; Pingkun Yan; Amir Tahmasebi; Sheng Xu; Bradford J. Wood; Nadine Abi-Jaoudeh; Aradhana Venkatesan; Jochen Kruecker

doi:10.1117/12.2082160

18 March 2015 Surface-based registration of liver in ultrasound and CT

Ehsan Dehghan, Kongkuo Lu, Pingkun Yan, Amir Tahmasebi, Sheng Xu, Bradford J. Wood, Nadine Abi-Jaoudeh, Aradhana Venkatesan, Jochen Kruecker

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Proceedings Volume 9415, Medical Imaging 2015: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling; 941522 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2082160
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2015, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Ultrasound imaging is an attractive modality for real-time image-guided interventions. Fusion of US imaging with a diagnostic imaging modality such as CT shows great potential in minimally invasive applications such as liver biopsy and ablation. However, significantly different representation of liver in US and CT turns this image fusion into a challenging task, in particular if some of the CT scans may be obtained without contrast agents. The liver surface, including the diaphragm immediately adjacent to it, typically appears as a hyper-echoic region in the ultrasound image if the proper imaging window and depth setting are used. The liver surface is also well visualized in both contrast and non-contrast CT scans, thus making the diaphragm or liver surface one of the few attractive common features for registration of US and non-contrast CT. We propose a fusion method based on point-to-volume registration of liver surface segmented in CT to a processed electromagnetically (EM) tracked US volume. In this approach, first, the US image is pre-processed in order to enhance the liver surface features. In addition, non-imaging information from the EM-tracking system is used to initialize and constrain the registration process. We tested our algorithm in comparison with a manually corrected vessel-based registration method using 8 pairs of tracked US and contrast CT volumes. The registration method was able to achieve an average deviation of 12.8mm from the ground truth measured as the root mean square Euclidean distance for control points distributed throughout the US volume. Our results show that if the US image acquisition is optimized for imaging of the diaphragm, high registration success rates are achievable.

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Ehsan Dehghan, Kongkuo Lu, Pingkun Yan, Amir Tahmasebi, Sheng Xu, Bradford J. Wood, Nadine Abi-Jaoudeh, Aradhana Venkatesan, and Jochen Kruecker "Surface-based registration of liver in ultrasound and CT", Proc. SPIE 9415, Medical Imaging 2015: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, 941522 (18 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2082160

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Liver

Image registration

Computed tomography

Ultrasonography

Image segmentation

Image fusion

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