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Published on: September 8, 2023
Skeleton-based abdominal aorta registration technique
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This study presents a novel abdominal aorta registration technique for assessing abdominal aortic aneurysm treatment. The method accurately matches pre- and postoperative Computed Tomography (CT) data, improving treatment evaluation.
Area of Science:
- Medical Imaging
- Computational Anatomy
- Vascular Surgery
Background:
- Vascular diseases pose significant health challenges in developed nations.
- Accurate vascular segmentation and registration are crucial for disease assessment and treatment monitoring.
- Abdominal aortic aneurysms require precise evaluation of treatment efficacy.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop and validate an abdominal aorta registration technique.
- To enable visualization of correspondences between pre- and postoperative Computed Tomography (CT) data for aneurysm treatment assessment.
- To match all voxels belonging to the aorta across different CT series.
Main Methods:
- A hybrid level-set active contour approach for aorta lumen segmentation.
- A path similarity skeleton graph matching procedure for registration.
- Testing on a database of 8 patients with two contrast-enhanced CT series each.
Main Results:
- The developed methodology successfully registered abdominal aorta data.
- All registration results were verified by an expert, demonstrating efficiency.
- The approach enables precise voxel-wise matching of aorta data from different CT scans.
Conclusions:
- The proposed abdominal aorta registration technique is effective for assessing abdominal aortic aneurysm treatment.
- The method's accuracy in matching pre- and postoperative CT data supports its clinical utility.
- Further development of this registration approach is warranted.
Abstract:
Vascular diseases are the most challenging health problems in developed countries. The vascular segmentation as well as registration techniques are the topics of past and ongoing research activities. In this work we target an abdominal aorta registration technique. The developed methodology is useful in the assessment of abdominal aortic aneurysm treatment by visualizing the correspondence between pre- and postoperative Computed Tomography (CT) data. The presented approach makes it possible to match all voxels belonging to the aorta from different CT series. It is based on aorta lumen segmentation and graph matching method. To segment the lumen area a hybrid level-set active contour approach is used. The matching step is performed based on a path similarity skeleton graph matching procedure. The registration results have been tested on the database of 8 patients, for which two different contrast-enhanced CT series were acquired. All registration results achieved with our system and verified by an expert prove the efficiency of the approach and encourage to further develop this method.
