TY - GEN
T1 - Automatic registration and fusion of ultrasound with CT for radiotherapy
AU - Wein, Wolfgang
AU - Röer, Barbara
AU - Navab, Nassir
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - We present a framework for rigid registration of a set of B-mode ultrasound images to a CT scan in the context of Radiotherapy planning. Our main focus is on deriving an appropriate similarity measure based on the physical properties and artifacts of ultrasound. A combination of a weighted Mutual Information term, edge correlation, clamping to the skin surface and occlusion detection is able to assess the alignment of structures in ultrasound images and simulated slices generated from the CT data. Hence a set of ultrasound images, whose relative transformations are given by a magnetic tracking device, can be registered automatically to the CT scan. We validated our methods on neck data of patients with head and neck tumors and cervical lymph node metastases.
AB - We present a framework for rigid registration of a set of B-mode ultrasound images to a CT scan in the context of Radiotherapy planning. Our main focus is on deriving an appropriate similarity measure based on the physical properties and artifacts of ultrasound. A combination of a weighted Mutual Information term, edge correlation, clamping to the skin surface and occlusion detection is able to assess the alignment of structures in ultrasound images and simulated slices generated from the CT data. Hence a set of ultrasound images, whose relative transformations are given by a magnetic tracking device, can be registered automatically to the CT scan. We validated our methods on neck data of patients with head and neck tumors and cervical lymph node metastases.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33744826021&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/11566489_38
DO - 10.1007/11566489_38
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 16685973
AN - SCOPUS:33744826021
SN - 3540293264
SN - 9783540293262
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 303
EP - 311
BT - Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2005 - 8th International Conference, Proceedings
T2 - 8th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2005
Y2 - 26 October 2005 through 29 October 2005
ER -