Multimodal Learning With Intraoperative CBCT & Variably Aligned Preoperative CT Data To Improve Segmentation

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Main Authors: Tschuchnig, Maximilian E., Steininger, Philipp, Gadermayr, Michael
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Published: 2024
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author Tschuchnig, Maximilian E.
Steininger, Philipp
Gadermayr, Michael
author_facet Tschuchnig, Maximilian E.
Steininger, Philipp
Gadermayr, Michael
contents Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is an important tool facilitating computer aided interventions, despite often suffering from artifacts that pose challenges for accurate interpretation. While the degraded image quality can affect downstream segmentation, the availability of high quality, preoperative scans represents potential for improvements. Here we consider a setting where preoperative CT and intraoperative CBCT scans are available, however, the alignment (registration) between the scans is imperfect. We propose a multimodal learning method that fuses roughly aligned CBCT and CT scans and investigate the effect of CBCT quality and misalignment on the final segmentation performance. For that purpose, we make use of a synthetically generated data set containing real CT and synthetic CBCT volumes. As an application scenario, we focus on liver and liver tumor segmentation. We show that the fusion of preoperative CT and simulated, intraoperative CBCT mostly improves segmentation performance (compared to using intraoperative CBCT only) and that even clearly misaligned preoperative data has the potential to improve segmentation performance.
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spellingShingle Multimodal Learning With Intraoperative CBCT & Variably Aligned Preoperative CT Data To Improve Segmentation
Tschuchnig, Maximilian E.
Steininger, Philipp
Gadermayr, Michael
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is an important tool facilitating computer aided interventions, despite often suffering from artifacts that pose challenges for accurate interpretation. While the degraded image quality can affect downstream segmentation, the availability of high quality, preoperative scans represents potential for improvements. Here we consider a setting where preoperative CT and intraoperative CBCT scans are available, however, the alignment (registration) between the scans is imperfect. We propose a multimodal learning method that fuses roughly aligned CBCT and CT scans and investigate the effect of CBCT quality and misalignment on the final segmentation performance. For that purpose, we make use of a synthetically generated data set containing real CT and synthetic CBCT volumes. As an application scenario, we focus on liver and liver tumor segmentation. We show that the fusion of preoperative CT and simulated, intraoperative CBCT mostly improves segmentation performance (compared to using intraoperative CBCT only) and that even clearly misaligned preoperative data has the potential to improve segmentation performance.
title Multimodal Learning With Intraoperative CBCT & Variably Aligned Preoperative CT Data To Improve Segmentation
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11650