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Minimally invasive transcatheter cardiac interventions are being adopted rapidly to treat a range of cardiovascular diseases. Pre-operative imaging, e.g., computed tomography (CT), plays an important role in surgical planning and simulation of cardiac interventions. Overlaying a 3D cardiac model extracted from pre-operative images onto real-time fluoroscopic images provides valuable visual guidance during the intervention. However, direct 3D to 2D fusion is difficult and may require quite amounts of user interaction. Intra-operative non-contrasted C-arm CT can be used as an intermedium for model fusion. The cardiac model is first warped to C-arm CT and later overlaid onto fluoroscopy. The C-arm CT to fluoroscopy overlay is straightforward since both images are captured on the same machine and the C-arm projection geometry can be directly used for overlay. Though various image registration methods may be used to fuse pre-operative images and C-arm CT, cross-modality image registration is not robust due to the significant difference in image characteristics (contrasted vs. non-contrasted). In this work we propose a model based fusion method using the pericardium to align pre-operative CT to intra-operative C-arm CT. After automatic segmentation of the pericardium in both CT and C-arm CT, the deformation field is estimated and then applied to warp the cardiac model extracted from CT to C-arm CT. The proposed method can be applied to fuse different cardiac models (e.g., chambers, aorta, coronary arteries, and cardiac valves). A feasibility study on aortic root model fusion shows that a reasonable accuracy can be achieved using a generic model (from a different patient), while more accurate results come from a patient-specific model. Intelligently weighted fusion can further improve the accuracy by using all available cardiac models in a pre-collected training set.
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Keywords
- Aortic Root
- Image Registration
- Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
- Model Fusion
- Cardiac Intervention
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Zheng, Y. (2014). Pericardium Based Model Fusion of CT and Non-contrasted C-arm CT for Visual Guidance in Cardiac Interventions. In: Golland, P., Hata, N., Barillot, C., Hornegger, J., Howe, R. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2014. MICCAI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8674. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10470-6_87
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