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Area of Science:

  • Medical Imaging
  • Radiotherapy
  • Computer Vision

Background:

  • Transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) is crucial for prostate cancer brachytherapy but has limited soft tissue contrast.
  • Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers better contrast but has structural differences, hindering direct use in TRUS-guided procedures.
  • Manual image annotation for MR-TRUS alignment is time-consuming and error-prone.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a region-of-interest (ROI)-guided framework for translating MRI to TRUS images.
  • To improve anatomical localization and soft tissue visualization in prostate cancer brachytherapy.
  • To simplify deformable registration between MRI and TRUS modalities.

Main Methods:

  • A region-of-interest (ROI)-guided modality translation framework synthesizing TRUS images from MRI.
  • Utilized structural priors and intensity-aware normalization for cross-domain image synthesis.
  • Incorporated anatomical constraints to ensure geometric and intensity fidelity.

Main Results:

  • Generated synthetic TRUS images that are modality-aligned with real TRUS images.
  • Demonstrated significant improvements in synthetic image quality on multi-institutional datasets.
  • Achieved enhanced MR-TRUS alignment, simplifying subsequent registration processes.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed framework advances multimodal medical image translation for improved image-guided therapies.
  • Synthetic TRUS images facilitate robust cross-modality registration, enhancing clinical applications.
  • This approach supports more accurate radioactive seed localization in prostate brachytherapy.