Real time motion analysis in 4D medical imaging using conditional density propagation

Johannes Lotz; Bernd Fischer; Janine Olesch; Matthias Günther

doi:10.1117/12.2006842

13 March 2013 Real time motion analysis in 4D medical imaging using conditional density propagation

Johannes Lotz, Bernd Fischer, Janine Olesch, Matthias Günther

Proceedings Volume 8669, Medical Imaging 2013: Image Processing; 86690T (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2006842
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2013, Lake Buena Vista (Orlando Area), Florida, United States

Abstract

Motion, like tumor movement due to respiration, constitutes a major problem in radiotherapy and/or diagnostics. A common idea to compensate for the motion in 4D imaging, is to invoke a registration strategy, which aligns the images over time. This approach is especially challenging if real time processing of the data and robustness with respect to noise and acquisition errors is required. To this end, we present a novel method which is based only on selected image features and uses a probabilistic approach to compute the wanted transformations of the 3D images. Moreover, we restrict the search space to rotation, translation and scaling. In an initial phase, landmarks in the first image of the series have to be identified, which are in the course of the scheme automatically transferred to the next image. To find the associated transformation parameters, a probabilistic approach, based on factored sampling, is invoked. We start from a state set containing a fixed number of different candidate parameters whose probabilities are approximated based on the image information at the landmark positions. Subsequent time frames are analyzed by factored sampling from this state set and by superimposing a stochastic diffusion term on the parameters. The algorithm is successfully applied to clinical 4D CT data. Landmarks have been placed manually to mark the tumor or a similar structure in the initial image whose position is then tracked over time. We achieve a processing rate of up to 12 image volumes per second. The accuracy of the tracking after five time steps is measured based on expert placed landmarks. We achieve a mean landmark error of less than 2 mm in each dimension in a region with radius of 25 mm around the target structure.

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Johannes Lotz, Bernd Fischer, Janine Olesch, and Matthias Günther "Real time motion analysis in 4D medical imaging using conditional density propagation", Proc. SPIE 8669, Medical Imaging 2013: Image Processing, 86690T (13 March 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2006842

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Image processing

Detection and tracking algorithms

Medical imaging

Motion analysis

3D image processing

4D CT imaging

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