MRI-TRUS image synthesis with application to image-guided prostate intervention

John A. Onofrey*, Ilkay Oksuz, Saradwata Sarkar, Rajesh Venkataraman, Lawrence H. Staib, Xenophon Papademetris

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Abstract

Accurate and robust fusion of pre-procedure magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to intra-procedure trans-rectal ultrasound (TRUS) imaging is necessary for image-guided prostate cancer biopsy procedures. The current clinical standard for image fusion relies on non-rigid surfacebased registration between semi-automatically segmented prostate surfaces in both the MRI and TRUS. This surface-based registration method does not take advantage of internal anatomical prostate structures, which have the potential to provide useful information for image registration. However, non-rigid, multi-modal intensity-based MRI-TRUS registration is challenging due to highly non-linear intensities relationships between MRI and TRUS. In this paper, we present preliminary work using image synthesis to cast this problem into a mono-modal registration task by using a large database of over 100 clinical MRI-TRUS image pairs to learn a joint model of MR-TRUS appearance. Thus, given an MRI, we use this learned joint appearance model to synthesize the patient’s corresponding TRUS image appearance with which we could potentially perform mono-modal intensity-based registration. We present preliminary results of this approach.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSimulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging - 1st International Workshop, SASHIMI 2016 held in conjunction with MICCAI 2016, Proceedings
EditorsSotirios A. Tsaftaris, Ali Gooya, Alejandro F. Frangi, Jerry L. Prince
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages157-166
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783319466293
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event1st International Workshop on Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging, SASHIMI 2016 held in conjunction with 19th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2016 - Athens, Greece
Duration: 21 Oct 201621 Oct 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9968 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference1st International Workshop on Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging, SASHIMI 2016 held in conjunction with 19th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2016
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityAthens
Period21/10/1621/10/16

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG 2016.

Funding

This work was supported in part by the NIH under grant R41/42-CA186414.

FundersFunder number
National Institutes of HealthR41/42-CA186414

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