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Matching corresponding location between prone and supine acquisitions for CT colonography (CTC) is essential to verify the existence of a polyp, which can be a difficult task due to the considerable deformations that will often occur to the colon during repositioning of the patient. This can induce error and increase interpretation time. We propose a novel method to automatically establish correspondence between the two acquisitions. A first step segments a set of haustral folds in each view and determines correspondence via a labelling process using a Markov Random Field (MRF) model. We show how the landmark correspondences can be used to non-rigidly transform a 2D source image derived from a conformal mapping process on the 3D endoluminal surface mesh to achieve full surface correspondence between prone and supine views. This can be used to initialise an intensity-based non-rigid B-spline registration method which further increases the accuracy. We demonstrate a statistically significant improvement over the intensity based non-rigid B-spline registration by using the composite method.
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Hampshire, T.E., Roth, H.R., Boone, D.J., Slabaugh, G., Halligan, S., Hawkes, D.J. (2012). Prone to Supine CT Colonography Registration Using a Landmark and Intensity Composite Method. In: Yoshida, H., Hawkes, D., Vannier, M.W. (eds) Abdominal Imaging. Computational and Clinical Applications. ABD-MICCAI 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7601. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33612-6_1
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