A Biomechanical Modeling Guided CBCT Estimation Technique

Two-dimensional-to-three-dimensional (2D-3D) deformation has emerged as a new technique to estimate cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images. The technique is based on deforming a prior high-quality 3D CT/CBCT image to form a new CBCT image, guided by limited-view 2D projections. The accuracy of this intensity-based technique, however, is often limited in low-contrast image regions with subtle intensity differences. The solved deformation vector fields (DVFs) can also be biomechanically unrealistic. To address these problems, we have developed a biomechanical modeling guided CBCT estimation technique (Bio-CBCT-est) by combining 2D-3D deformation with finite element analysis (FEA)-based biomechanical modeling of anatomical structures. Specifically, Bio-CBCT-est first extracts the 2D-3D deformation-generated displacement vectors at the high-contrast anatomical structure boundaries. The extracted surface deformation fields are subsequently used as the boundary conditions to drive structure-based FEA to correct and fine-tune the overall deformation fields, especially those at low-contrast regions within the structure. The resulting FEA-corrected deformation fields are then fed back into 2D-3D deformation to form an iterative loop, combining the benefits of intensity-based deformation and biomechanical modeling for CBCT estimation. Using eleven lung cancer patient cases, the accuracy of the Bio-CBCT-est technique has been compared to that of the 2D-3D deformation technique and the traditional CBCT reconstruction techniques. The accuracy was evaluated in the image domain, and also in the DVF domain through clinician-tracked lung landmarks..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:36

Enthalten in:

IEEE transactions on medical imaging - 36(2017), 2, Seite 641-652

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhang, You [VerfasserIn]
Tehrani, Joubin Nasehi [Sonstige Person]
Wang, Jing [Sonstige Person]

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BKL:

44.09

Themen:

2D-3D deformation
Biomechanical modeling
Biomechanics
Boundary condition
Boundary conditions
Computational modeling
Cone-beam computed tomography
Deformable models
Estimation
Finite element analysis
Image estimation
Lungs
Mooney-Rivlin material
Strain

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RVK Klassifikation

doi:

10.1109/TMI.2016.2623745

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1990934587