Abstract:
:An efficient registration strategy is described that aims to help solve delicate medical imaging registration problems. It consists of running several registration methods for each dataset and selecting the best one for each specific dataset, according to an evaluation criterion. Finally, the quality of the registration results, obtained with the best method, is visually scored by an expert as excellent, correct or poor. The strategy was applied to coregister Technetium-99m Sestamibi SPECT and MRI data in the framework of a follow-up protocol in patients with high grade gliomas receiving antiangiogenic therapy. To adapt the strategy to this clinical context, a robust semi-automatic evaluation criterion based on the physiological uptake of the Sestamibi tracer was defined. A panel of eighteen multimodal registration algorithms issued from BrainVisa, SPM or AIR software environments was systematically applied to the clinical database composed of sixty-two datasets. According to the expert visual validation, this new strategy provides 85% excellent registrations, 12% correct ones and only 3% poor ones. These results compare favorably to the ones obtained by the globally most efficient registration method over the whole database, for which only 61% of excellent registration results have been reported. Thus the registration strategy in its current implementation proves to be suitable for clinical application.
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Phys Med Bioljournal_title
Physics in medicine and biologyauthors
Tacchella JM,Roullot E,Lefort M,Cohen ME,Guillevin R,Petrirena G,Delattre JY,Habert MO,Yeni N,Kas A,Frouin Fdoi
10.1088/0031-9155/59/22/6997subject
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2014-11-21 00:00:00pages
6997-7011issue
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0031-9155issn
1361-6560journal_volume
59pub_type
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