Deformable registration of x-ray to MRI for post-implant dosimetry in prostate brachytherapy

Seyoun Park; Danny Y. Song; Junghoon Lee

doi:10.1117/12.2216911

18 March 2016 Deformable registration of x-ray to MRI for post-implant dosimetry in prostate brachytherapy

Seyoun Park, Danny Y. Song, Junghoon Lee

Proceedings Volume 9786, Medical Imaging 2016: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling; 97860L (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216911
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Post-implant dosimetric assessment in prostate brachytherapy is typically performed using CT as the standard imaging modality. However, poor soft tissue contrast in CT causes significant variability in target contouring, resulting in incorrect dose calculations for organs of interest. CT-MR fusion-based approach has been advocated taking advantage of the complementary capabilities of CT (seed identification) and MRI (soft tissue visibility), and has proved to provide more accurate dosimetry calculations. However, seed segmentation in CT requires manual review, and the accuracy is limited by the reconstructed voxel resolution. In addition, CT deposits considerable amount of radiation to the patient. In this paper, we propose an X-ray and MRI based post-implant dosimetry approach. Implanted seeds are localized using three X-ray images by solving a combinatorial optimization problem, and the identified seeds are registered to MR images by an intensity-based points-to-volume registration. We pre-process the MR images using geometric and Gaussian filtering. To accommodate potential soft tissue deformation, our registration is performed in two steps, an initial affine transformation and local deformable registration. An evolutionary optimizer in conjunction with a points-to-volume similarity metric is used for the affine registration. Local prostate deformation and seed migration are then adjusted by the deformable registration step with external and internal force constraints. We tested our algorithm on six patient data sets, achieving registration error of (1.2±0.8) mm in < 30 sec. Our proposed approach has the potential to be a fast and cost-effective solution for post-implant dosimetry with equivalent accuracy as the CT-MR fusion-based approach.

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Seyoun Park, Danny Y. Song, and Junghoon Lee "Deformable registration of x-ray to MRI for post-implant dosimetry in prostate brachytherapy", Proc. SPIE 9786, Medical Imaging 2016: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, 97860L (18 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216911

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