Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOLOGY AND SURGERY
Volume 10, Issue 12, Pages 1997-2007Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11548-015-1233-y
Keywords
Prostate biopsy; Multimodal deformable registration; Hough forest segmentation; Coherent point drift
Funding
- EU 7th Framework Program projects Marie Curie Early Initial Training Network Fellowship [PITN-GA-2011-289355-PicoSEC-MCNet]
- EndoTOFPET-US [GA-FP7/2007-2013-256984]
- SoftwareCampus program of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [Forderkennzeichen 01IS12057]
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Transrectal ultrasound (TRUS)-guided random prostate biopsy is, in spite of its low sensitivity, the gold standard for the diagnosis of prostate cancer. The recent advent of PET imaging using a novel dedicated radiotracer, -labeled prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA), combined with MRI provides improved pre-interventional identification of suspicious areas. This work proposes a multimodal fusion image-guided biopsy framework that combines PET-MRI images with TRUS, using automatic segmentation and registration, and offering real-time guidance. The prostate TRUS images are automatically segmented with a Hough transform-based random forest approach. The registration is based on the Coherent Point Drift algorithm to align surfaces elastically and to propagate the deformation field calculated from thin-plate splines to the whole gland. The method, which has minimal requirements and temporal overhead in the existing clinical workflow, is evaluated in terms of surface distance and landmark registration error with respect to the clinical ground truth. Evaluations on agar-gelatin phantoms and clinical data of 13 patients confirm the validity of this approach. The system is able to successfully map suspicious regions from PET/MRI to the interventional TRUS image.
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