2013 Summer Project Week:3D prostate registration of Ultrasound image using MRI

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Key Investigators

• BWH: Demian Wassermann, Andriy Fedorov, Tina Kapur, Sandy Wells (BWH)

Background

A difficult problem in image-guided therapy is to be able to overlay pre-operative plannign with intra-operative imaging for surgical guidance. In this project we implement an algorithm to do that in the case of prostate surgery. We do that through biophysical simulation of the intra-operative tissue dynamics and registration on top of the intra-operative US image.

Objective

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Develop a module which taking a set of artificially deformed prostate volumes extracted from MRI infers the deformation modes and uses them to register the planning over the US intra-op images.

Approach, Plan

We have a prototype version of the algorithm in Python, the idea is to assess the interactive needs and plugging it into Slicer.

Progress

TBD

Delivery Mechanism

This work will be delivered to the NA-MIC Kit as a

1. Slicer Module
   1. Extension — loadable modules

References

• Hu, Y., Ahmed, H. U., Taylor, Z., Allen, C., Emberton, M., Hawkes, D., & Barratt, D. (2012). MR to ultrasound registration for image-guided prostate interventions. Medical Image Analysis, 16(3), 687–703. doi:10.1016/j.media.2010.11.003