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Shahid MS, French AP, Valstar MF, Yakubov GE. Research in methodologies for modelling the oral cavity. Biomed Phys Eng Express 2024; 10:032001. [PMID: 38350128 DOI: 10.1088/2057-1976/ad28cc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2023] [Accepted: 02/13/2024] [Indexed: 02/15/2024]
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The paper aims to explore the current state of understanding surrounding in silico oral modelling. This involves exploring methodologies, technologies and approaches pertaining to the modelling of the whole oral cavity; both internally and externally visible structures that may be relevant or appropriate to oral actions. Such a model could be referred to as a 'complete model' which includes consideration of a full set of facial features (i.e. not only mouth) as well as synergistic stimuli such as audio and facial thermal data. 3D modelling technologies capable of accurately and efficiently capturing a complete representation of the mouth for an individual have broad applications in the study of oral actions, due to their cost-effectiveness and time efficiency. This review delves into the field of clinical phonetics to classify oral actions pertaining to both speech and non-speech movements, identifying how the various vocal organs play a role in the articulatory and masticatory process. Vitaly, it provides a summation of 12 articulatory recording methods, forming a tool to be used by researchers in identifying which method of recording is appropriate for their work. After addressing the cost and resource-intensive limitations of existing methods, a new system of modelling is proposed that leverages external to internal correlation modelling techniques to create a more efficient models of the oral cavity. The vision is that the outcomes will be applicable to a broad spectrum of oral functions related to physiology, health and wellbeing, including speech, oral processing of foods as well as dental health. The applications may span from speech correction, designing foods for the aging population, whilst in the dental field we would be able to gain information about patient's oral actions that would become part of creating a personalised dental treatment plan.
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- School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, NG8 1BB, United Kingdom
- School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, LE12 5RD, United Kingdom
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- School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, NG8 1BB, United Kingdom
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- School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, LE12 5RD, United Kingdom
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Wei R, Chen J, Liang B, Chen X, Men K, Dai J. Real-time 3D MRI reconstruction from cine-MRI using unsupervised network in MRI-guided radiotherapy for liver cancer. Med Phys 2022. [PMID: 36510442 DOI: 10.1002/mp.16141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2022] [Revised: 10/12/2022] [Accepted: 11/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Respiration has a major impact on the accuracy of radiation treatment for thorax and abdominal tumours. Instantaneous volumetric imaging could provide precise knowledge of tumour and normal organs' three-dimensional (3D) movement, which is the key to reducing the negative effect of breathing motion. Therefore, this study proposed a real-time 3D MRI reconstruction method from cine-MRI using an unsupervised network. METHODS AND MATERIALS Cine-MRI and setup 3D-MRI from eight patients with liver cancer were utilized to establish and validate the deep learning network for 3D-MRI reconstruction. Unlike previous methods that required 4D-MRI for network training, the proposed method utilized a reference 3D-MRI and cine-MRI to generate the training data. Then, a network was trained in an unsupervised manner to estimate the relationship between the cine-MRI acquired on coronal plane and deformation vector field (DVF) that describes the patient's breathing motion. After the training process, the coronal cine-MRI were inputted into the network, and the corresponding DVF was obtained. By wrapping the reference 3D-MRI with the generated DVF, the 3D-MRI could be reconstructed. RESULTS The reconstructed 3D-MRI slices were compared with the corresponding phase-sorted cine-MRI using dice similarity coefficients (DSCs) of liver contours and blood vessel localization error. In all patients, the liver DSC had mean value >96.1% and standard deviation < 1.3%; the blood vessel localization error had mean value <2.6 mm, and standard deviation was <2.0 mm. Moreover, the time for 3D-MRI reconstruction was approximately 100 ms. These results indicated that the proposed method could accurately reconstruct the 3D-MRI in real time. CONCLUSIONS The proposed method could accurately reconstruct the 3D-MRI from cine-MRI in real time. This method has great potential in improving the accuracy of radiotherapy for moving tumours.
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- Ran Wei
- National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.,National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Hebei Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Langfang, China
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- National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.,National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Hebei Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Langfang, China
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- National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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Generation of a local lung respiratory motion model using a weighted sparse algorithm and motion prior-based registration. Comput Biol Med 2020; 123:103913. [PMID: 32768049 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2020.103913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2020] [Revised: 06/15/2020] [Accepted: 07/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Respiration-introduced tumor location uncertainty is a challenge in lung percutaneous interventions, especially for the respiratory motion estimation of the tumor and surrounding vessel structures. In this work, a local motion modeling method is proposed based on whole-chest computed tomography (CT) and CT-fluoroscopy (CTF) scans. A weighted sparse statistical modeling (WSSM) method that can accurately capture location errors for each landmark point is proposed for lung motion prediction. By varying the sparse weight coefficients of the WSSM method, newly input motion information is approximately represented by a sparse linear combination of the respiratory motion repository and employed to serve as prior knowledge for the following registration process. We have also proposed an adaptive motion prior-based registration method to improve the motion prediction accuracy of the motion model in the region of interest (ROI). This registration method adopts a B-spline scheme to interactively weight the relative influence of the prior knowledge, model surface and image intensity information by locally controlling the deformation in the CTF image region. The proposed method has been evaluated on 15 image pairs between the end-expiratory (EE) and end-inspiratory (EI) phases and 31 four-dimensional CT (4DCT) datasets. The results reveal that the proposed WSSM method achieved a better motion prediction performance than other existing lung statistical motion modeling methods, and the motion prior-based registration method can generate more accurate local motion information in the ROI.
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Ting LL, Chuang HC, Liao AH, Kuo CC, Yu HW, Tsai HC, Tien DC, Jeng SC, Chiou JF. Tumor motion tracking based on a four-dimensional computed tomography respiratory motion model driven by an ultrasound tracking technique. Quant Imaging Med Surg 2020; 10:26-39. [PMID: 31956526 DOI: 10.21037/qims.2019.09.02] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Background An ultrasound image tracking algorithm (UITA) was combined with four-dimensional computed tomography (4DCT) to create a real-time tumor motion-conversion model. The real-time position of a lung tumor phantom based on the real-time diaphragm motion trajectories detected by ultrasound imaging in the superior-inferior (SI) and medial-lateral (ML) directions were obtained. Methods Three different tumor motion-conversion models were created using a respiratory motion simulation system (RMSS) combined with 4DCT. The tumor tracking error was verified using cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). The tumor motion-conversion model was produced by using the UITA to monitor the motion trajectories of the diaphragm phantom in the SI direction, and using 4DCT to monitor the motion trajectories of the tumor phantom in the SI and ML directions over the same time period, to obtain parameters for the motion-conversion model such as the tumor center position and the amplitude and phase ratios. Results The tumor movement was monitored for 90 s using CBCT to determine the real motion trajectories of the tumor phantom and using ultrasound imaging to simultaneously record the diaphragm movement. The absolute error of the motion trajectories of the real and estimated tumor varied between 0.5 and 2.1 mm in the two directions. Conclusions This study has demonstrated the feasibility of using ultrasound imaging to track diaphragmatic motion combined with a 4DCT tumor motion-conversion model to track tumor motion in the SI and ML directions. The proposed method makes tracking a lung tumor feasible in real time, including under different breathing conditions.
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- Lai-Lei Ting
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Graduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Radiation Oncology, Wanfang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.,School of Health Care Administration, College of Management, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Taipei Cancer Center, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.,School of Dentistry, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.,Taipei Cancer Center, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Chee G, O’Connell D, Yang YM, Singhrao K, Low DA, Lewis JH. McSART: an iterative model-based, motion-compensated SART algorithm for CBCT reconstruction. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019; 64:095013. [DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ab07d6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Internal Motion Estimation by Internal-external Motion Modeling for Lung Cancer Radiotherapy. Sci Rep 2018; 8:3677. [PMID: 29487330 PMCID: PMC5829085 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-22023-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2017] [Accepted: 02/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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The aim of this study is to develop an internal-external correlation model for internal motion estimation for lung cancer radiotherapy. Deformation vector fields that characterize the internal-external motion are obtained by respectively registering the internal organ meshes and external surface meshes from the 4DCT images via a recently developed local topology preserved non-rigid point matching algorithm. A composite matrix is constructed by combing the estimated internal phasic DVFs with external phasic and directional DVFs. Principle component analysis is then applied to the composite matrix to extract principal motion characteristics, and generate model parameters to correlate the internal-external motion. The proposed model is evaluated on a 4D NURBS-based cardiac-torso (NCAT) synthetic phantom and 4DCT images from five lung cancer patients. For tumor tracking, the center of mass errors of the tracked tumor are 0.8(±0.5)mm/0.8(±0.4)mm for synthetic data, and 1.3(±1.0)mm/1.2(±1.2)mm for patient data in the intra-fraction/inter-fraction tracking, respectively. For lung tracking, the percent errors of the tracked contours are 0.06(±0.02)/0.07(±0.03) for synthetic data, and 0.06(±0.02)/0.06(±0.02) for patient data in the intra-fraction/inter-fraction tracking, respectively. The extensive validations have demonstrated the effectiveness and reliability of the proposed model in motion tracking for both the tumor and the lung in lung cancer radiotherapy.
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McClelland JR, Modat M, Arridge S, Grimes H, D’Souza D, Thomas D, Connell DO, Low DA, Kaza E, Collins DJ, Leach MO, Hawkes DJ. A generalized framework unifying image registration and respiratory motion models and incorporating image reconstruction, for partial image data or full images. Phys Med Biol 2017; 62:4273-4292. [PMID: 28195833 PMCID: PMC5763581 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/aa6070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2016] [Revised: 01/10/2017] [Accepted: 02/14/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Surrogate-driven respiratory motion models relate the motion of the internal anatomy to easily acquired respiratory surrogate signals, such as the motion of the skin surface. They are usually built by first using image registration to determine the motion from a number of dynamic images, and then fitting a correspondence model relating the motion to the surrogate signals. In this paper we present a generalized framework that unifies the image registration and correspondence model fitting into a single optimization. This allows the use of 'partial' imaging data, such as individual slices, projections, or k-space data, where it would not be possible to determine the motion from an individual frame of data. Motion compensated image reconstruction can also be incorporated using an iterative approach, so that both the motion and a motion-free image can be estimated from the partial image data. The framework has been applied to real 4DCT, Cine CT, multi-slice CT, and multi-slice MR data, as well as simulated datasets from a computer phantom. This includes the use of a super-resolution reconstruction method for the multi-slice MR data. Good results were obtained for all datasets, including quantitative results for the 4DCT and phantom datasets where the ground truth motion was known or could be estimated.
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- Jamie R McClelland
- Centre for Medical Image Computing, Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Translational Imaging Group, Centre for Medical Image Computing, Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Medical Image Computing, Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Radiotherapy Physics Department, University College London Hospitals NHS FT, Euston Road, London, NW1 2PG, United Kingdom
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- Radiotherapy Physics Department, University College London Hospitals NHS FT, Euston Road, London, NW1 2PG, United Kingdom
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 1665 Aurora Court, Suite 1032 MS F706—Aurora, CO 80045, United States of America
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California Los Angeles, 200 Medical Plaza Way, Suite B265, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States of America
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California Los Angeles, 200 Medical Plaza Way, Suite B265, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States of America
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- CRUK Cancer Imaging Centre, Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Hospital, 123 Old Brompton Road, London, SW7 3RP, United Kingdom
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- CRUK Cancer Imaging Centre, Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Hospital, 123 Old Brompton Road, London, SW7 3RP, United Kingdom
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- CRUK Cancer Imaging Centre, Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Hospital, 123 Old Brompton Road, London, SW7 3RP, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Medical Image Computing, Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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Wölfelschneider J, Seregni M, Fassi A, Ziegler M, Baroni G, Fietkau R, Riboldi M, Bert C. Examination of a deformable motion model for respiratory movements and 4D dose calculations using different driving surrogates. Med Phys 2017; 44:2066-2076. [PMID: 28369900 DOI: 10.1002/mp.12243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2016] [Revised: 03/13/2017] [Accepted: 03/16/2017] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate a surrogate-driven motion model based on four-dimensional computed tomography that is able to predict CT volumes corresponding to arbitrary respiratory phases. Furthermore, the comparison of three different driving surrogates is examined and the feasibility of using the model for 4D dose re-calculation will be discussed. METHODS The study is based on repeated 4DCTs of twenty patients treated for bronchial carcinoma and metastasis. The motion model was estimated from the planning 4DCT through deformable image registration. To predict a certain phase of a follow-up 4DCT, the model considers inter-fractional variations (baseline correction) and intra-fractional respiratory parameters (amplitude and phase) derived from surrogates. The estimated volumes resulting from the model were compared to ground-truth clinical 4DCTs using absolute HU differences in the lung region and landmarks localized using the Scale Invariant Feature Transform. Finally, the γ-index was used to evaluate the dosimetric effects of the intensity differences measured between the estimated and the ground-truth CT volumes. RESULTS The results show absolute HU differences between estimated and ground-truth images with median value (± standard deviation) of (61.3 ± 16.7) HU. Median 3D distances, measured on about 400 matching landmarks in each volume, were (2.9 ± 3.0) mm. 3D errors up to 28.2 mm were found for CT images with artifacts or reduced quality. Pass rates for all surrogate approaches were above 98.9% with a γ-criterion of 2%/2 mm. CONCLUSION The results depend mainly on the image quality of the initial 4DCT and the deformable image registration. All investigated surrogates can be used to estimate follow-up 4DCT phases, however, uncertainties decrease for volumetric approaches. Application of the model for 4D dose calculations is feasible.
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- Jens Wölfelschneider
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054, Erlangen, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, 20133, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, 20133, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054, Erlangen, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, 20133, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054, Erlangen, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, 20133, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054, Erlangen, Germany
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Hawkes DJ. From clinical imaging and computational models to personalised medicine and image guided interventions. Med Image Anal 2016; 33:50-55. [PMID: 27407003 DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2016.06.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2016] [Revised: 06/10/2016] [Accepted: 06/15/2016] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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This short paper describes the development of the UCL Centre for Medical Image Computing (CMIC) from 2006 to 2016, together with reference to historical developments of the Computational Imaging sciences Group (CISG) at Guy's Hospital. Key early work in automated image registration led to developments in image guided surgery and improved cancer diagnosis and therapy. The work is illustrated with examples from neurosurgery, laparoscopic liver and gastric surgery, diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer and breast cancer, and image guided radiotherapy for lung cancer.
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- David J Hawkes
- Centre for Medical Image Computing, UCL, London, UK, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
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Leni PE, Laurent R, Salomon M, Gschwind R, Makovicka L, Henriet J. Development of a 4D numerical chest phantom with customizable breathing. Phys Med 2016; 32:795-800. [PMID: 27184332 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2016.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2015] [Revised: 05/03/2016] [Accepted: 05/05/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Respiratory movement information is useful for radiation therapy, and is generally obtained using 4D scanners (4DCT). In the interest of patient safety, reducing the use of 4DCT could be a significant step in reducing radiation exposure, the effects of which are not well documented. The authors propose a customized 4D numerical phantom representing the organ contours. Firstly, breathing movement can be simulated and customized according to the patient's anthroporadiametric data. Using learning sets constituted by 4D scanners, artificial neural networks can be trained to interpolate the lung contours corresponding to an unknown patient, and then to simulate its respiration. Lung movement during the breathing cycle is modeled by predicting the lung contours at any respiratory phases. The interpolation is validated comparing the obtained lung contours with 4DCT via Dice coefficient. Secondly, a preliminary study of cardiac and œsophageal motion is also presented to demonstrate the flexibility of this approach. The application may simulate the position and volume of the lungs, the œsophagus and the heart at every phase of the respiratory cycle with a good accuracy: the validation of the lung modeling gives a Dice index greater than 0.93 with 4DCT over a breath cycle.
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- Pierre-Emmanuel Leni
- IRMA/Chrono-Environnement Laboratory, UMR CNRS 6249, University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France.
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- IRMA/Chrono-Environnement Laboratory, UMR CNRS 6249, University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France
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- FEMTO-ST Laboratory, UMR CNRS 6174, University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France
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- IRMA/Chrono-Environnement Laboratory, UMR CNRS 6249, University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France
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- IRMA/Chrono-Environnement Laboratory, UMR CNRS 6249, University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France
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- IRMA/Chrono-Environnement Laboratory, UMR CNRS 6249, University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France
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Fassi A, Schaerer J, Riboldi M, Sarrut D, Baroni G. An image-based method to synchronize cone-beam CT and optical surface tracking. J Appl Clin Med Phys 2015; 16:5152. [PMID: 26103183 PMCID: PMC5690086 DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v16i2.5152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2014] [Revised: 11/26/2014] [Accepted: 11/24/2014] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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The integration of in-room X-ray imaging and optical surface tracking has gained increasing importance in the field of image guided radiotherapy (IGRT). An essential step for this integration consists of temporally synchronizing the acquisition of X-ray projections and surface data. We present an image-based method for the synchronization of cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) and optical surface systems, which does not require the use of additional hardware. The method is based on optically tracking the motion of a component of the CBCT/gantry unit, which rotates during the acquisition of the CBCT scan. A calibration procedure was implemented to relate the position of the rotating component identified by the optical system with the time elapsed since the beginning of the CBCT scan, thus obtaining the temporal correspondence between the acquisition of X-ray projections and surface data. The accuracy of the proposed synchronization method was evaluated on a motorized moving phantom, performing eight simultaneous acquisitions with an Elekta Synergy CBCT machine and the AlignRT optical device. The median time difference between the sinusoidal peaks of phantom motion signals extracted from the synchronized CBCT and AlignRT systems ranged between -3.1 and 12.9 msec, with a maximum interquartile range of 14.4 msec. The method was also applied to clinical data acquired from seven lung cancer patients, demonstrating the potential of the proposed approach in estimating the individual and daily variations in respiratory parameters and motion correlation of internal and external structures. The presented synchronization method can be particularly useful for tumor tracking applications in extracranial radiation treatments, especially in the field of patient-specific breathing models, based on the correlation between internal tumor motion and external surface surrogates.
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Fassi A, Seregni M, Riboldi M, Cerveri P, Sarrut D, Ivaldi GB, de Fatis PT, Liotta M, Baroni G. Surrogate-driven deformable motion model for organ motion tracking in particle radiation therapy. Phys Med Biol 2015; 60:1565-82. [DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/60/4/1565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Rit S, Vila Oliva M, Brousmiche S, Labarbe R, Sarrut D, Sharp GC. The Reconstruction Toolkit (RTK), an open-source cone-beam CT reconstruction toolkit based on the Insight Toolkit (ITK). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014. [DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/489/1/012079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Wilms M, Werner R, Ehrhardt J, Schmidt-Richberg A, Schlemmer HP, Handels H. Multivariate regression approaches for surrogate-based diffeomorphic estimation of respiratory motion in radiation therapy. Phys Med Biol 2014; 59:1147-64. [PMID: 24557007 DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/59/5/1147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Breathing-induced location uncertainties of internal structures are still a relevant issue in the radiation therapy of thoracic and abdominal tumours. Motion compensation approaches like gating or tumour tracking are usually driven by low-dimensional breathing signals, which are acquired in real-time during the treatment. These signals are only surrogates of the internal motion of target structures and organs at risk, and, consequently, appropriate models are needed to establish correspondence between the acquired signals and the sought internal motion patterns. In this work, we present a diffeomorphic framework for correspondence modelling based on the Log-Euclidean framework and multivariate regression. Within the framework, we systematically compare standard and subspace regression approaches (principal component regression, partial least squares, canonical correlation analysis) for different types of common breathing signals (1D: spirometry, abdominal belt, diaphragm tracking; multi-dimensional: skin surface tracking). Experiments are based on 4D CT and 4D MRI data sets and cover intra- and inter-cycle as well as intra- and inter-session motion variations. Only small differences in internal motion estimation accuracy are observed between the 1D surrogates. Increasing the surrogate dimensionality, however, improved the accuracy significantly; this is shown for both 2D signals, which consist of a common 1D signal and its time derivative, and high-dimensional signals containing the motion of many skin surface points. Eventually, comparing the standard and subspace regression variants when applied to the high-dimensional breathing signals, only small differences in terms of motion estimation accuracy are found.
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- M Wilms
- Institute of Medical Informatics, University of Lübeck, D-23538 Lübeck, Germany
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Fassi A, Schaerer J, Fernandes M, Riboldi M, Sarrut D, Baroni G. Tumor Tracking Method Based on a Deformable 4D CT Breathing Motion Model Driven by an External Surface Surrogate. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2014; 88:182-8. [PMID: 24331665 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2013.09.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2013] [Revised: 08/26/2013] [Accepted: 09/13/2013] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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