Journal
MEDICAL PHYSICS
Volume 33, Issue 9, Pages 3304-3312Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1118/1.2222077
Keywords
deformable image registration; image intensity modification; image-guided radiotherapy; autosegmentation; prostate cancers
Funding
- NCI NIH HHS [CA74043] Funding Source: Medline
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In image-guided adaptive radiotherapy, it is important to have the capability to automatically and accurately delineate the rectal wall, which is a major dose-limiting organ in prostate cancer radiotherapy. As image registration is a process to find the spatial correspondence between two images, a major challenge in intensity-based deformable image registration is to deal with the situation where no correspondence exists for some objects between the two images to be registered. One example is the variation of rectal contents due to the presence and absence of bowel gas. The intensity-based deformable image registration methods alone cannot create the correct spatial transformation if there is no correspondence between the source and target images. In this study we implemented an automatic image intensity modification procedure to create artificial gas pockets in the planning computed tomography (CT) images. A diffusion-based deformable image registration algorithm was developed to use an adaptive smoothing algorithm to better handle large organ deformations. The process was tested in 15 prostate cancer cases and 30 daily CT images containing the largest distended rectums. The manually delineated rectums agreed well with the autodelineated rectums when using the image-intensity modification procedure. (c) 2006 American Association of Physicists in Medicine.
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