Multimodal registration improves surgical planning and the performance of interventional procedures such as transarterial chemoembolizations (TACE), since it allows to combine complementary information provided by pre- and intrainterventional data about tumor localization and access. However, no registration methods specifically developed for the multimodal registration of abdominal scans exist and as a result only general-purpose methods are available for this application. In this paper, we evaluate and optimize the performance of three standard registration methods which rely on different similarity metrics, namely Advanced Mattes Mutual Information (AMMI), Advanced Normalized Correlation (ANC) and Normalized Mutual Information (NMI), for the registration of preinterventional T1- and T2-weighted MRI to preinterventional CT as well as intrainterventional Cone Beam CT (CBCT) to preinterventional CT of the liver. Moreover, different variants of the registration algorithms, based on the introduction of masks and different resolution levels in multistage registrations, are investigated. To evaluate the performance of each registration method, the capture range was estimated based on the calculation of the mean target registration error.
Image registration of preprocedural contrast-enhanced CTs to intraprocedual cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) can provide additional information for interventional liver oncology procedures such as transcatheter arterial chemoembolisation (TACE). In this paper, a novel similarity metric for gradient-based image registration is proposed. The metric relies on the patch-based computation of histograms of oriented gradients (HOG) building the basis for a feature descriptor. The metric was implemented in a framework for rigid 3D-3D-registration of pre-interventional CT with intra-interventional CBCT data obtained during the workflow of a TACE. To evaluate the performance of the new metric, the capture range was estimated based on the calculation of the mean target registration error and compared to the results obtained with a normalized cross correlation metric. The results show that 3D HOG feature descriptors are suitable as image-similarity metric and that the novel metric can compete with established methods in terms of registration accuracy
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