An anatomically oriented breast model for MRI

Dominik Kutra; Martin Bergtholdt; Jörg Sabczynski; Olaf Dössel; Thomas Buelow

doi:10.1117/12.2081851

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18 March 2015 An anatomically oriented breast model for MRI

Dominik Kutra, Martin Bergtholdt, Jörg Sabczynski, Olaf Dössel, Thomas Buelow

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Proceedings Volume 9415, Medical Imaging 2015: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling; 941521 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2081851
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2015, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the western world. In the breast cancer care-cycle, MRIis e.g. employed in lesion characterization and therapy assessment. Reading of a single three dimensional image or comparing a multitude of such images in a time series is a time consuming task. Radiological reporting is done manually by translating the spatial position of a finding in an image to a generic representation in the form of a breast diagram, outlining quadrants or clock positions. Currently, registration algorithms are employed to aid with the reading and interpretation of longitudinal studies by providing positional correspondence. To aid with the reporting of findings, knowledge about the breast anatomy has to be introduced to translate from patient specific positions to a generic representation. In our approach we fit a geometric primitive, the semi-super-ellipsoid to patient data. Anatomical knowledge is incorporated by fixing the tip of the super-ellipsoid to the mammilla position and constraining its center-point to a reference plane defined by landmarks on the sternum. A coordinate system is then constructed by linearly scaling the fitted super-ellipsoid, defining a unique set of parameters to each point in the image volume. By fitting such a coordinate system to a different image of the same patient, positional correspondence can be generated. We have validated our method on eight pairs of baseline and follow-up scans (16 breasts) that were acquired for the assessment of neo-adjuvant chemotherapy. On average, the location predicted and the actual location of manually set landmarks are within a distance of 5.6 mm. Our proposed method allows for automatic reporting simply by uniformly dividing the super-ellipsoid around its main axis.

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Dominik Kutra, Martin Bergtholdt, Jörg Sabczynski, Olaf Dössel, and Thomas Buelow "An anatomically oriented breast model for MRI", Proc. SPIE 9415, Medical Imaging 2015: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, 941521 (18 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2081851

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