3D non-rigid surface-based MR-TRUS registration for image-guided prostate biopsy

Yue Sun; Wu Qiu; Cesare Romagnoli; Aaron Fenster

doi:10.1117/12.2043662

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12 March 2014 3D non-rigid surface-based MR-TRUS registration for image-guided prostate biopsy

Yue Sun, Wu Qiu, Cesare Romagnoli, Aaron Fenster

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Proceedings Volume 9036, Medical Imaging 2014: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling; 90362J (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043662
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Two dimensional (2D) transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) guided prostate biopsy is the standard approach for definitive diagnosis of prostate cancer (PCa). However, due to the lack of image contrast of prostate tumors needed to clearly visualize early-stage PCa, prostate biopsy often results in false negatives, requiring repeat biopsies. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has been considered to be a promising imaging modality for noninvasive identification of PCa, since it can provide a high sensitivity and specificity for the detection of early stage PCa. Our main objective is to develop and validate a registration method of 3D MR-TRUS images, allowing generation of volumetric 3D maps of targets identified in 3D MR images to be biopsied using 3D TRUS images. Our registration method first makes use of an initial rigid registration of 3D MR images to 3D TRUS images using 6 manually placed approximately corresponding landmarks in each image. Following the manual initialization, two prostate surfaces are segmented from 3D MR and TRUS images and then non-rigidly registered using a thin-plate spline (TPS) algorithm. The registration accuracy was evaluated using 4 patient images by measuring target registration error (TRE) of manually identified corresponding intrinsic fiducials (calcifications and/or cysts) in the prostates. Experimental results show that the proposed method yielded an overall mean TRE of 2.05 mm, which is favorably comparable to a clinical requirement for an error of less than 2.5 mm.

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Yue Sun, Wu Qiu, Cesare Romagnoli, and Aaron Fenster "3D non-rigid surface-based MR-TRUS registration for image-guided prostate biopsy", Proc. SPIE 9036, Medical Imaging 2014: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, 90362J (12 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043662

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