Geometric modeling of hepatic arteries in 3D ultrasound with unsupervised MRA fusion during liver interventions

Purpose Modulating the chemotherapy injection rate with regard to blood flow velocities in the tumor-feeding arteries during intra-arterial therapies may help improve liver tumor targeting while decreasing systemic exposure. These velocities can be obtained noninvasively using Doppler ultrasound (US...

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Published in:International journal for computer assisted radiology and surgery 2017-06, Vol.12 (6), p.961-972
Main Authors: Gérard, Maxime, Michaud, François, Bigot, Alexandre, Tang, An, Soulez, Gilles, Kadoury, Samuel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Angiography
Animals
Arteries
Blood flow
Blood vessels
Chemotherapy
Computer Imaging
Computer Science
Deformation
Finite element method
Formability
Health Informatics
Hepatic Artery - diagnostic imaging
Image acquisition
Imaging
Imaging, Three-Dimensional - methods
Liver
Liver Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging
Liver Neoplasms - surgery
Magnetic Resonance Angiography - methods
Mathematical analysis
Matrix methods
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Multimodal Imaging
Original Article
Pattern Recognition and Graphics
Perforation
Radiology
Registration
Surgery
Swine
Three dimensional models
Ultrasonography - methods
Veins & arteries
Vision
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Summary:Purpose Modulating the chemotherapy injection rate with regard to blood flow velocities in the tumor-feeding arteries during intra-arterial therapies may help improve liver tumor targeting while decreasing systemic exposure. These velocities can be obtained noninvasively using Doppler ultrasound (US). However, small vessels situated in the liver are difficult to identify and follow in US. We propose a multimodal fusion approach that non-rigidly registers a 3D geometric mesh model of the hepatic arteries obtained from preoperative MR angiography (MRA) acquisitions with intra-operative 3D US imaging. Methods The proposed fusion tool integrates 3 imaging modalities: an arterial MRA, a portal phase MRA and an intra-operative 3D US. Preoperatively, the arterial phase MRA is used to generate a 3D model of the hepatic arteries, which is then non-rigidly co-registered with the portal phase MRA. Once the intra-operative 3D US is acquired, we register it with the portal MRA using a vessel-based rigid initialization followed by a non-rigid registration using an image-based metric based on linear correlation of linear combination. Using the combined non-rigid transformation matrices, the 3D mesh model is fused with the 3D US. Results 3D US and multi-phase MRA images acquired from 10 porcine models were used to test the performance of the proposed fusion tool. Unimodal registration of the MRA phases yielded a target registration error (TRE) of 1.2 ± 0.6  mm. Initial rigid alignment of the portal MRA and 3D US yielded a mean TRE of 8.6 ± 3.0  mm, which was significantly reduced to 4.0 ± 1.0  mm ( p = 0.002 ) after affine image-based registration. The following deformable registration step allowed for further decrease of the mean TRE to 3.9 ± 1.1  mm. Conclusion The proposed tool could facilitate visualization and localization of these vessels when using 3D US intra-operatively for either intravascular or percutaneous interventions to avoid vessel perforation.
ISSN:1861-6410
1861-6429
DOI:10.1007/s11548-017-1550-4