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International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
Published in: International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 9/2015

01-09-2015 | Original Article

A multi-vertebrae CT to US registration of the lumbar spine in clinical data

Authors: Simrin Nagpal, Purang Abolmaesumi, Abtin Rasoulian, Ilker Hacihaliloglu, Tamas Ungi, Jill Osborn, Victoria A. Lessoway, John Rudan, Melanie Jaeger, Robert N. Rohling, Dan P. Borschneck, Parvin Mousavi

Published in: International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery | Issue 9/2015

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Abstract

Purpose

Spinal needle injections are widely applied to alleviate back pain and for anesthesia. Current treatment is performed either blindly with palpation or using fluoroscopy or computed tomography (CT). Both fluoroscopy and CT guidance expose patients to ionizing radiation. Ultrasound (US) guidance for spinal needle procedures is becoming more prevalent as an alternative. It is challenging to use US as the sole imaging modality for intraoperative guidance of spine needle injections due to the acoustic shadows created by the bony structures of the vertebra that limit visibility of the target areas for injection. We propose registration of CT and the US images to augment anatomical visualization for the clinician during spinal interventions guided by US.

Methods

The proposed method involves automatic global and multi-vertebrae registration to find the closest alignment between CT and US data. This is performed by maximizing the similarity between the two modalities using voxel intensity information as well as features extracted from the input volumes. In our method, the lumbar spine is first globally aligned between the CT and US data using intensity-based registration followed by point-based registration. To account for possible curvature change of the spine between the CT and US volumes, a multi-vertebrae registration step is also performed. Springs are used to constrain the movement of the individually transformed vertebrae to ensure the optimal alignment is a pose of the lumbar spine that is physically possible.

Results

Evaluation of the algorithm is performed on 10 clinical patient datasets. The registration approach was able to align CT and US datasets from initial misalignments of up to 25 mm, with a mean TRE of 1.37 mm. These results suggest that the proposed approach has the potential to offer a sufficiently accurate registration between clinical CT and US data.
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Metadata
Title
A multi-vertebrae CT to US registration of the lumbar spine in clinical data
Authors
Simrin Nagpal
Purang Abolmaesumi
Abtin Rasoulian
Ilker Hacihaliloglu
Tamas Ungi
Jill Osborn
Victoria A. Lessoway
John Rudan
Melanie Jaeger
Robert N. Rohling
Dan P. Borschneck
Parvin Mousavi
Publication date
01-09-2015
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery / Issue 9/2015
Print ISSN: 1861-6410
Electronic ISSN: 1861-6429
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-015-1247-5

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