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In this paper, we propose an accurate and rapid non-rigid registration method between blood vessels in temporal 3D cardiac computed tomography angiography images of the same patient. This method provides auxiliary information that can be utilized in the diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery diseases. The proposed method consists of the following four steps. First, global registration is conducted through rigid registration between the 3D vessel centerlines obtained from temporal 3D cardiac CT angiography images. Second, point matching between the 3D vessel centerlines in the rigid registration results is performed, and the corresponding points are defined. Third, the outliers in the matched corresponding points are removed by using various information such as thickness and gradient of the vessels. Finally, non-rigid registration is conducted for hierarchical local transformation using an energy function. The experiment results show that the average registration error of the proposed method is 0.987 mm, and the average execution time is 2.137 s, indicating that the registration is accurate and rapid. The proposed method that enables rapid and accurate registration by using the information on blood vessel characteristics in temporal CTA images of the same patient.
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This study was a basic research project (No. 2020R1A2C1102727) supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea and financed by the Government (Ministry of Science and ICT) in 2020. In addition, this study was a basic research project (No. 2020R1A6A3A01099507) supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea and financed by the Government (Ministry of Education) in 2020.
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Jeong, H., Park, T., Khang, S. et al. Non-rigid registration based on hierarchical deformation of coronary arteries in CCTA images. Biomed. Eng. Lett. 13, 65–72 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13534-022-00254-8
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