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Seed localization in Ultrasound and Registration to C-Arm Fluoroscopy Using Matched Needle Tracks for Prostate Brachytherapy

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Title Seed localization in Ultrasound and Registration to C-Arm Fluoroscopy Using Matched Needle Tracks for Prostate Brachytherapy
 
Creator MORADI, M
MAHDAVI, SS
DEHGHAN, E
LOBO, JR
DESHMUKH, S
MORRIS, WJ
FICHTINGER, G
SALCUDEAN, SE
 
Subject Prostate brachytherapy
template matching
ultrasound imaging
X-ray fluoroscopy
TRANSRECTAL ULTRASOUND
RECONSTRUCTION
DOSIMETRY
TRUS
SEGMENTATION
ALGORITHM
IMPLANTS
FUSION
 
Description We propose a novel fiducial-free approach for the registration of C-arm fluoroscopy to 3-D ultrasound images of prostate brachytherapy implants to enable dosimetry. The approach involves the reliable detection of a subset of radioactive seeds from 3-D ultrasound, and the use of needle tracks in both ultrasound and fluoroscopy for registration. Seed detection in ultrasound is achieved through template matching in 3-D radio frequency ultrasound signals, followed by thresholding and spatial filtering. The resulting subset of seeds is registered to the complete reconstruction of the brachytherapy implant from multiple C-arm fluoroscopy views. To compensate for the deformation caused by the ultrasound probe, simulated warping is applied to the seed cloud from fluoroscopy. The magnitude of the applied warping is optimized within the registration process. The registration is performed in two stages. First, the needle track projections from fluoroscopy and ultrasound are matched. Only the seeds in the matched needles are then used as fiducials for point-based registration. We report results from a physical phantom with a realistic implant (average postregistration seed distance of 1.6 +/- 1.2 mm) and from five clinical patient datasets (average error: 2.8 +/- 1.5 mm over 128 detected seeds). We conclude that it is feasible to use RF ultrasound data, template matching, and spatial filtering to detect a reliable subset of brachytherapy seeds from ultrasound to enable registration to fluoroscopy for dosimetry.
 
Publisher IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
 
Date 2014-10-15T15:22:55Z
2014-10-15T15:22:55Z
2012
 
Type Article
 
Identifier IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, 59(9)2558-2567
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2012.2206808
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/jspui/handle/100/15142
 
Language en