Oyarzun Laura, Cristina ; Drechsler, Klaus ; Wesarg, Stefan (2014)
Two-Step FEM-Based Liver-CT Registration: Improving Internal and External Accuracy.
Medical Imaging 2014: Image Processing.
doi: 10.1117/12.2043592
Conference or Workshop Item, Bibliographie
Abstract
To know the exact location of the internal structures of the organs, especially the vasculature, is of great importance for the clinicians. This information allows them to know which structures/vessels will be affected by certain therapy and therefore to better treat the patients. However the use of internal structures for registration is often disregarded especially in physical based registration methods. In this paper we propose an algorithm that uses finite element methods to carry out a registration of liver volumes that will not only have accuracy in the boundaries of the organ but also in the interior. Therefore a graph matching algorithm is used to find correspondences between the vessel trees of the two livers to be registered. In addition to this an adaptive volumetric mesh is generated that contains nodes in the locations in which correspondences were found. The displacements derived from those correspondences are the input for the initial deformation of the model. The first deformation brings the internal structures to their final deformed positions and the surfaces close to it. Finally, thin plate splines are used to refine the solution at the boundaries of the organ achieving an improvement in the accuracy of 71. The algorithm has been evaluated in CT clinical images of the abdomen.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item |
|---|---|
| Erschienen: | 2014 |
| Creators: | Oyarzun Laura, Cristina ; Drechsler, Klaus ; Wesarg, Stefan |
| Type of entry: | Bibliographie |
| Title: | Two-Step FEM-Based Liver-CT Registration: Improving Internal and External Accuracy |
| Language: | English |
| Date: | 2014 |
| Publisher: | SPIE Press, Bellingham |
| Series: | Proceedings of SPIE; 9034 |
| Event Title: | Medical Imaging 2014: Image Processing |
| DOI: | 10.1117/12.2043592 |
| Abstract: | To know the exact location of the internal structures of the organs, especially the vasculature, is of great importance for the clinicians. This information allows them to know which structures/vessels will be affected by certain therapy and therefore to better treat the patients. However the use of internal structures for registration is often disregarded especially in physical based registration methods. In this paper we propose an algorithm that uses finite element methods to carry out a registration of liver volumes that will not only have accuracy in the boundaries of the organ but also in the interior. Therefore a graph matching algorithm is used to find correspondences between the vessel trees of the two livers to be registered. In addition to this an adaptive volumetric mesh is generated that contains nodes in the locations in which correspondences were found. The displacements derived from those correspondences are the input for the initial deformation of the model. The first deformation brings the internal structures to their final deformed positions and the surfaces close to it. Finally, thin plate splines are used to refine the solution at the boundaries of the organ achieving an improvement in the accuracy of 71. The algorithm has been evaluated in CT clinical images of the abdomen. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Business Field: Visual decision support, Research Area: Modeling (MOD), Liver, Registration, Graph matching, Finite element method (FEM) |
| Divisions: | 20 Department of Computer Science 20 Department of Computer Science > Interactive Graphics Systems |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Nov 2018 11:16 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Nov 2018 11:16 |
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