Automatic initialization for 3D bone registration

Pezhman Foroughi; Russell H. Taylor; Gabor Fichtinger

doi:10.1117/12.772632

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17 March 2008 Automatic initialization for 3D bone registration

Pezhman Foroughi, Russell H. Taylor, Gabor Fichtinger

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Proceedings Volume 6918, Medical Imaging 2008: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling; 69182P (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.772632
Event: Medical Imaging, 2008, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

In image-guided bone surgery, sample points collected from the surface of the bone are registered to the preoperative CT model using well-known registration methods such as Iterative Closest Point (ICP). These techniques are generally very sensitive to the initial alignment of the datasets. Poor initialization significantly increases the chances of getting trapped local minima. In order to reduce the risk of local minima, the registration is manually initialized by locating the sample points close to the corresponding points on the CT model. In this paper, we present an automatic initialization method that aligns the sample points collected from the surface of pelvis with CT model of the pelvis. The main idea is to exploit a mean shape of pelvis created from a large number of CT scans as the prior knowledge to guide the initial alignment. The mean shape is constant for all registrations and facilitates the inclusion of application-specific information into the registration process. The CT model is first aligned with the mean shape using the bilateral symmetry of the pelvis and the similarity of multiple projections. The surface points collected using ultrasound are then aligned with the pelvis mean shape. This will, in turn, lead to initial alignment of the sample points with the CT model. The experiments using a dry pelvis and two cadavers show that the method can align the randomly dislocated datasets close enough for successful registration. The standard ICP has been used for final registration of datasets.

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Pezhman Foroughi, Russell H. Taylor, and Gabor Fichtinger "Automatic initialization for 3D bone registration", Proc. SPIE 6918, Medical Imaging 2008: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling, 69182P (17 March 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.772632

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