Abhishek Karmakar1, Max L Olender2, David Marlevi2, Evan Shlofmitz3, Richard A Shlofmitz3, Elazer R Edelman2, Farhad R Nezami4. 1. Cornell University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ithaca, New York, United States. 2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. 3. St. Francis Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Roslyn, New York, United States. 4. Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Division of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Abstract
Purpose: Modern medical imaging enables clinicians to effectively diagnose, monitor, and treat diseases. However, clinical decision-making often relies on combined evaluation of either longitudinal or disparate image sets, necessitating coregistration of multiple acquisitions. Promising coregistration techniques have been proposed; however, available methods predominantly rely on time-consuming manual alignments or nontrivial feature extraction with limited clinical applicability. Addressing these issues, we present a fully automated, robust, nonrigid registration method, allowing for coregistering of multimodal tomographic vascular image datasets using luminal annotation as the sole alignment feature. Approach: Registration is carried out by the use of the registration metrics defined exclusively for lumens shapes. The framework is primarily broken down into two sequential parts: longitudinal and rotational registration. Both techniques are inherently nonrigid in nature to compensate for motion and acquisition artifacts in tomographic images. Results: Performance was evaluated across multimodal intravascular datasets, as well as in longitudinal cases assessing pre-/postinterventional coronary images. Low registration error in both datasets highlights method utility, with longitudinal registration errors-evaluated throughout the paired tomographic sequences-of 0.29 ± 0.14 mm ( < 2 longitudinal image frames) and 0.18 ± 0.16 mm ( < 1 frame) for multimodal and interventional datasets, respectively. Angular registration for the interventional dataset rendered errors of 7.7 ° ± 6.7 ° , and 29.1 ° ± 23.2 ° for the multimodal set. Conclusions: Satisfactory results across datasets, along with additional attributes such as the ability to avoid longitudinal over-fitting and correct nonlinear catheter rotation during nonrigid rotational registration, highlight the potential wide-ranging applicability of our presented coregistration method.
Purpose: Modern medical imaging enables clinicians to effectively diagnose, monitor, and treat diseases. However, clinical decision-making often relies on combined evaluation of either longitudinal or disparate image sets, necessitating coregistration of multiple acquisitions. Promising coregistration techniques have been proposed; however, available methods predominantly rely on time-consuming manual alignments or nontrivial feature extraction with limited clinical applicability. Addressing these issues, we present a fully automated, robust, nonrigid registration method, allowing for coregistering of multimodal tomographic vascular image datasets using luminal annotation as the sole alignment feature. Approach: Registration is carried out by the use of the registration metrics defined exclusively for lumens shapes. The framework is primarily broken down into two sequential parts: longitudinal and rotational registration. Both techniques are inherently nonrigid in nature to compensate for motion and acquisition artifacts in tomographic images. Results: Performance was evaluated across multimodal intravascular datasets, as well as in longitudinal cases assessing pre-/postinterventional coronary images. Low registration error in both datasets highlights method utility, with longitudinal registration errors-evaluated throughout the paired tomographic sequences-of 0.29 ± 0.14 mm ( < 2 longitudinal image frames) and 0.18 ± 0.16 mm ( < 1 frame) for multimodal and interventional datasets, respectively. Angular registration for the interventional dataset rendered errors of 7.7 ° ± 6.7 ° , and 29.1 ° ± 23.2 ° for the multimodal set. Conclusions: Satisfactory results across datasets, along with additional attributes such as the ability to avoid longitudinal over-fitting and correct nonlinear catheter rotation during nonrigid rotational registration, highlight the potential wide-ranging applicability of our presented coregistration method.
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