Accuracy assessment of an automatic image-based PET/CT registration for ultrasound-guided biopsies and ablations

Samuel Kadoury; Bradford J. Wood; Aradhana M. Venkatesan; Sandeep Dalal; Sheng Xu; Jochen Kruecker

doi:10.1117/12.878067

1 March 2011 Accuracy assessment of an automatic image-based PET/CT registration for ultrasound-guided biopsies and ablations

Samuel Kadoury, Bradford J. Wood, Aradhana M. Venkatesan, Sandeep Dalal, Sheng Xu, Jochen Kruecker

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Proceedings Volume 7964, Medical Imaging 2011: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling; 79642P (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.878067
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2011, Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), Florida, United States

Abstract

The multimodal fusion of spatially tracked real-time ultrasound (US) with a prior CT scan has demonstrated clinical utility, accuracy, and positive impact upon clinical outcomes when used for guidance during biopsy and radiofrequency ablation in the treatment of cancer. Additionally, the combination of CT-guided procedures with positron emission tomography (PET) may not only enhance navigation, but add valuable information regarding the specific location and volume of the targeted masses which may be invisible on CT and US. The accuracy of this fusion depends on reliable, reproducible registration methods between PET and CT. This can avoid extensive manual efforts to correct registration which can be long and tedious in an interventional setting. In this paper, we present a registration workflow for PET/CT/US fusion by analyzing various image metrics based on normalized mutual information and cross-correlation, using both rigid and affine transformations to automatically align PET and CT. Registration is performed between the CT component of the prior PET-CT and the intra-procedural CT scan used for navigation to maximize image congruence. We evaluate the accuracy of the PET/CT registration by computing fiducial and target registration errors using anatomical landmarks and lesion locations respectively. We also report differences to gold-standard manual alignment as well as the root mean square errors for CT/US fusion. Ten patients with prior PET/CT who underwent ablation or biopsy procedures were selected for this study. Studies show that optimal results were obtained using a crosscorrelation based rigid registration with a landmark localization error of 1.1 +/- 0.7 mm using a discrete graphminimizing scheme. We demonstrate the feasibility of automated fusion of PET/CT and its suitability for multi-modality ultrasound guided navigation procedures.

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Samuel Kadoury, Bradford J. Wood, Aradhana M. Venkatesan, Sandeep Dalal, Sheng Xu, and Jochen Kruecker "Accuracy assessment of an automatic image-based PET/CT registration for ultrasound-guided biopsies and ablations", Proc. SPIE 7964, Medical Imaging 2011: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling, 79642P (1 March 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.878067

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