Hidden Seed Reconstruction from C-ARM Images in Brachytherapy

Autor: Gabor Fichtinger, A. Kumar Jain, Ryan Kon
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: ISBI
DOI: 10.1109/isbi.2006.1624969
Popis: There has been a pressing clinical need for adaptive intraoperative dosimetry in the delivery of prostate brachytherapy implants. The missing prerequisite is the robust matching of the seeds across multiple C-arm images. This is further aggravated since seeds are invariably hidden in each image. We present a solution to recover these hidden seeds in this paper. A network flow formulation of the problem is proposed, where the desired solution is obtained (in polynomial time) by computing the flow with minimum cost. Phantom experiments show that using four X-ray images, on an average 99.8% of the seeds are recovered correctly, while simulations indicate that our algorithm is robust to segmentation errors of up to 1 mm and hidden seed rate of at least 8%. The results show strong feasibility and clinical data collection is currently underway.
Databáze: OpenAIRE