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Registration of 3D freehand ultrasound to a bone model for orthopedic procedures of the forearm


Ciganovic, Matija; Ozdemir, Firat; Pean, Fabien; Fuernstahl, Philipp; Tanner, Christine; Goksel, Orcun (2018). Registration of 3D freehand ultrasound to a bone model for orthopedic procedures of the forearm. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 13(6):827-836.

Abstract

PURPOSE For guidance of orthopedic surgery, the registration of preoperative images and corresponding surgical plans with the surgical setting can be of great value. Ultrasound (US) is an ideal modality for surgical guidance, as it is non-ionizing, real time, easy to use, and requires minimal (magnetic/radiation) safety limitations. By extracting bone surfaces from 3D freehand US and registering these to preoperative bone models, complementary information from these modalities can be fused and presented in the surgical realm.
METHODS A partial bone surface is extracted from US using phase symmetry and a factor graph-based approach. This is registered to the detailed 3D bone model, conventionally generated for preoperative planning, based on a proposed multi-initialization and surface-based scheme robust to partial surfaces.
RESULTS 36 forearm US volumes acquired using a tracked US probe were independently registered to a 3D model of the radius, manually extracted from MRI. Given intraoperative time restrictions, a computationally efficient algorithm was determined based on a comparison of different approaches. For all 36 registrations, a mean (± SD) point-to-point surface distance of [Formula: see text] was obtained from manual gold standard US bone annotations (not used during the registration) to the 3D bone model.
CONCLUSIONS A registration framework based on the bone surface extraction from 3D freehand US and a subsequent fast, automatic surface alignment robust to single-sided view and large false-positive rates from US was shown to achieve registration accuracy feasible for practical orthopedic scenarios and a qualitative outcome indicating good visual image alignment.

Abstract

PURPOSE For guidance of orthopedic surgery, the registration of preoperative images and corresponding surgical plans with the surgical setting can be of great value. Ultrasound (US) is an ideal modality for surgical guidance, as it is non-ionizing, real time, easy to use, and requires minimal (magnetic/radiation) safety limitations. By extracting bone surfaces from 3D freehand US and registering these to preoperative bone models, complementary information from these modalities can be fused and presented in the surgical realm.
METHODS A partial bone surface is extracted from US using phase symmetry and a factor graph-based approach. This is registered to the detailed 3D bone model, conventionally generated for preoperative planning, based on a proposed multi-initialization and surface-based scheme robust to partial surfaces.
RESULTS 36 forearm US volumes acquired using a tracked US probe were independently registered to a 3D model of the radius, manually extracted from MRI. Given intraoperative time restrictions, a computationally efficient algorithm was determined based on a comparison of different approaches. For all 36 registrations, a mean (± SD) point-to-point surface distance of [Formula: see text] was obtained from manual gold standard US bone annotations (not used during the registration) to the 3D bone model.
CONCLUSIONS A registration framework based on the bone surface extraction from 3D freehand US and a subsequent fast, automatic surface alignment robust to single-sided view and large false-positive rates from US was shown to achieve registration accuracy feasible for practical orthopedic scenarios and a qualitative outcome indicating good visual image alignment.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:04 Faculty of Medicine > Balgrist University Hospital, Swiss Spinal Cord Injury Center
Dewey Decimal Classification:610 Medicine & health
Scopus Subject Areas:Health Sciences > Surgery
Physical Sciences > Biomedical Engineering
Health Sciences > Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
Physical Sciences > Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Health Sciences > Health Informatics
Physical Sciences > Computer Science Applications
Physical Sciences > Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Language:English
Date:5 April 2018
Deposited On:19 Apr 2018 08:23
Last Modified:26 Jan 2022 16:43
Publisher:Springer
ISSN:1861-6410
OA Status:Closed
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-018-1756-0
PubMed ID:29623539
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