Registration of different phases of contrast-enhanced CT/MRI data for computer-assisted liver surgery planning: Evaluation of state-of-the-art methods

Item Type:	Article
Title:	Registration of different phases of contrast-enhanced CT/MRI data for computer-assisted liver surgery planning: Evaluation of state-of-the-art methods
Creators Name:	Lange, T. and Wenckebach, T.H. and Lamecker, H. and Seebass, M. and Huenerbein, M. and Eulenstein, S. and Gebauer, B. and Schlag, P.M.
Abstract:	The exact localization of intrahepatic vessels in relation to a tumour is an important issue in oncological liver surgery. For computer-assisted preoperative planning of surgical procedures high quality vessel models are required. In this work we show how to generate such models on the basis of registered CT or MRI data at different phases of contrast agent propagation. We combine well-established intensity-based rigid and non-rigid registration approaches using Mutual Information as distance measure with different masking strategies as well as intensity inhomogeneity correction for MRI data. Non-rigid deformations are modelled by multilevel cubic B-splines. Quantitative evaluations of 5 MRI and 5 CT image pairs show that the liver moves rigidly 7.2 (+/− 4.2) mm on average, while the remaining non-rigid deformations range from 1.4–3 mm. As a result we find that masked rigid registration is necessary and in many cases also sufficient on clinical data. After non-rigid registration the matching shows no deviations in most cases.
Keywords:	Computer-aided surgery, Liver, Vascular networks, Rigid and non-rigid, Registration, Inhomogeneity correction, Automatic masking
Source:	International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery
ISSN:	1478-5951
Volume:	1
Page Range:	6-20
Date:	20 September 2005
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1002/rcs.23

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