Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
10-2017
Journal
Healthcare Technology Letters
Volume
4
Issue
5
Inclusive Pages
174-178
DOI
10.1049/htl.2017.0067
Abstract
Craniosynostosis is a congenital malformation of the infant skull typically treated via corrective surgery. To accurately quantify the extent of deformation and identify the optimal correction strategy, the patient-specific skull model extracted from a pre-surgical computed tomography (CT) image needs to be registered to an atlas of head CT images representative of normal subjects. Here, the authors present a robust multi-stage, multi-resolution registration pipeline to map a patient-specific CT image to the atlas space of normal CT images. The proposed registration pipeline first performs an initial optimisation at very low resolution to yield a good initial alignment that is subsequently refined at high resolution. They demonstrate the robustness of the proposed method by evaluating its performance on 560 head CT images of 320 normal subjects and 240 craniosynostosis patients and show a success rate of 92.8 and 94.2%, respectively. Their method achieved a mean surface-to-surface distance between the patient and template skull of <2.5 mm in the targeted skull region across both the normal subjects and patients. Keywords: image registration, bone, surgery, medical image processing, computerised tomography, deformation, biomechanics, image resolution, optimisation Keywords: robust head CT image registration pipeline, craniosynostosis skull correction surgery, congenital malformation, infant skull, corrective surgery, deformation, optimal correction strategy, patient-specific skull model extraction, presurgical computed tomography image, robust multistage multiresolution registration pipeline, patient-specihc CT image, normal CT images, initial optimisation, very low resolution, mean surface-to-surface distance, template skull, targeted skull region
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APA Citation
Dangi, S., Shah, H., Porras, A., Paniagua, B., Linte, C., Linguraru, M., & Enquobahrie, A. (2017). Robust head CT image registration pipeline for craniosynostosis skull correction surgery. Healthcare Technology Letters, 4 (5). http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/htl.2017.0067
Peer Reviewed
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Open Access
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Comments
Reproduced with permission of The Institution of Engineering and Technology. Healthcare Technology Letters