A semiautomatic nonrigid registration in liver cancer treatment with an open MR system

Songyuan Tang*, Yen Wei Chen, Rui Xu, Yongtian Wang, Shigehiro Morikawa, Yoshimasa Kurumi

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Abstract

A semiautomatic nonrigid registration is proposed to match preoperative CT images and real-time MR images during the ablation of liver tumors. The method includes three parts. Firstly, the livers are extracted from CT and MR images. Since the CT image is acquired a several days before surgery, there is enough time for surgeons to segment the liver from the CT image manually. During the surgery, active contour is used to extract the liver from the MR image. Then, we use affine registration to match the images roughly. Finally, high accuracy registration is reached by free-form deformation registration. The average distance of liver surfaces is within 1.5 mm and the result of visual inspection is very well. The results are far better than Andres'.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Artificial Reality and Tele-Existence - 16th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence, ICAT 2006, Proceedings
Pages802-810
Number of pages9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006
Event16th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence, ICAT 2006 - Hangzhou, China
Duration: 29 Nov 20061 Dec 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4282 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence, ICAT 2006
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHangzhou
Period29/11/061/12/06

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