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During neurosurgical operations, surgeons can decide to acquire intraoperative data to better proceed with the removal of a tumor. A valid option is given by ultrasound (US) imaging, which can be easily obtained at subsequent surgical stages, giving therefore multiple updates of the resection cavity. To improve the efficacy of the intraoperative guidance, neurosurgeons may benefit from having a direct correspondence between anatomical structures identified at different US acquisitions. In this context, the commonly available neuronavigation systems already provide registration methods, which however are not enough accurate to overcome the anatomical changes happening during resection. Therefore, our aim with this work is to improve the registration of intraoperative US volumes. In the proposed methodology, first a distance mapping of automatically segmented anatomical structures is computed and then the transformed images are utilized in the registration step. Our solution is tested on a public dataset of 17 cases, where the average landmark registration error between volumes acquired at the beginning and at the end of neurosurgical procedures is reduced from 3.55 mm to 1.27 mm.
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This work was funded by the H2020 Marie-Curie ITN TRABIT (765148) project. Moreover, Prof. Dr. Kikinis is supported by NIH grants P41 EB015902, P41 EB015898, and U24 CA180918.
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Canalini, L., Klein, J., Miller, D., Kikinis, R. (2019). Registration of Ultrasound Volumes Based on Euclidean Distance Transform. In: Zhou, L., et al. Large-Scale Annotation of Biomedical Data and Expert Label Synthesis and Hardware Aware Learning for Medical Imaging and Computer Assisted Intervention. LABELS HAL-MICCAI CuRIOUS 2019 2019 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11851. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33642-4_14
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