Mass Preserving Registration for lung CT

Vladlena Gorbunova, Pechin Chien Pau Lo, Martin Loeve, Harm Tiddens, Jon Sporring, Mads Nielsen, Marleen de Bruijne

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Abstract

In this paper, we evaluate a novel image registration method on a set of expiratory-inspiratory pairs of computed tomography (CT) lung scans. A free-form multi resolution image registration technique is used to match two scans of the same subject. To account for the differences in the lung intensities due to differences in inspiration level, we propose to adjust the intensity of lung tissue according to the local expansion or compression. An image registration method without intensity adjustment is compared to the proposed method. Both approaches are evaluated on a set of 10 pairs of expiration and inspiration CT scans of children with cystic fibrosis lung disease. The proposed method with mass preserving adjustment results in significantly better alignment of the vessel trees. Analysis of local volume change for regions with trapped air compared to normally ventilated regions revealed larger differences between these regions in the case of mass preserving image registration, indicating that mass preserving registration is better at capturing localized differences in lung deformation.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelProceedings of the SPIE : Medical Imaging 2009: Image Processing
Antal sider10
Vol/bind7259
Publikationsdato2009
ISBN (Trykt)9780819475107
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2009
BegivenhedProceedings of the SPIE - Orlando, Florida, USA
Varighed: 7 feb. 200912 feb. 2009

Konference

KonferenceProceedings of the SPIE
Land/OmrådeUSA
ByOrlando, Florida
Periode07/02/200912/02/2009
NavnProceedings of the SPIE
Vol/bind7259
ISSN0277-786X

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