Needle Segmentation Using GAN: Restoring Thin Instrument Visibility in Robotic Ultrasound

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Main Authors: Jiang, Zhongliang, Li, Xuesong, Chu, Xiangyu, Karlas, Angelos, Bi, Yuan, Cheng, Yingsheng, Au, K. W. Samuel, Navab, Nassir
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author Jiang, Zhongliang
Li, Xuesong
Chu, Xiangyu
Karlas, Angelos
Bi, Yuan
Cheng, Yingsheng
Au, K. W. Samuel
Navab, Nassir
author_facet Jiang, Zhongliang
Li, Xuesong
Chu, Xiangyu
Karlas, Angelos
Bi, Yuan
Cheng, Yingsheng
Au, K. W. Samuel
Navab, Nassir
contents Ultrasound-guided percutaneous needle insertion is a standard procedure employed in both biopsy and ablation in clinical practices. However, due to the complex interaction between tissue and instrument, the needle may deviate from the in-plane view, resulting in a lack of close monitoring of the percutaneous needle. To address this challenge, we introduce a robot-assisted ultrasound (US) imaging system designed to seamlessly monitor the insertion process and autonomously restore the visibility of the inserted instrument when misalignment happens. To this end, the adversarial structure is presented to encourage the generation of segmentation masks that align consistently with the ground truth in high-order space. This study also systematically investigates the effects on segmentation performance by exploring various training loss functions and their combinations. When misalignment between the probe and the percutaneous needle is detected, the robot is triggered to perform transverse searching to optimize the positional and rotational adjustment to restore needle visibility. The experimental results on ex-vivo porcine samples demonstrate that the proposed method can precisely segment the percutaneous needle (with a tip error of $0.37\pm0.29mm$ and an angle error of $1.19\pm 0.29^{\circ}$). Furthermore, the needle appearance can be successfully restored under the repositioned probe pose in all 45 trials, with repositioning errors of $1.51\pm0.95mm$ and $1.25\pm0.79^{\circ}$. from latex to text with math symbols
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spellingShingle Needle Segmentation Using GAN: Restoring Thin Instrument Visibility in Robotic Ultrasound
Jiang, Zhongliang
Li, Xuesong
Chu, Xiangyu
Karlas, Angelos
Bi, Yuan
Cheng, Yingsheng
Au, K. W. Samuel
Navab, Nassir
Robotics
Ultrasound-guided percutaneous needle insertion is a standard procedure employed in both biopsy and ablation in clinical practices. However, due to the complex interaction between tissue and instrument, the needle may deviate from the in-plane view, resulting in a lack of close monitoring of the percutaneous needle. To address this challenge, we introduce a robot-assisted ultrasound (US) imaging system designed to seamlessly monitor the insertion process and autonomously restore the visibility of the inserted instrument when misalignment happens. To this end, the adversarial structure is presented to encourage the generation of segmentation masks that align consistently with the ground truth in high-order space. This study also systematically investigates the effects on segmentation performance by exploring various training loss functions and their combinations. When misalignment between the probe and the percutaneous needle is detected, the robot is triggered to perform transverse searching to optimize the positional and rotational adjustment to restore needle visibility. The experimental results on ex-vivo porcine samples demonstrate that the proposed method can precisely segment the percutaneous needle (with a tip error of $0.37\pm0.29mm$ and an angle error of $1.19\pm 0.29^{\circ}$). Furthermore, the needle appearance can be successfully restored under the repositioned probe pose in all 45 trials, with repositioning errors of $1.51\pm0.95mm$ and $1.25\pm0.79^{\circ}$. from latex to text with math symbols
title Needle Segmentation Using GAN: Restoring Thin Instrument Visibility in Robotic Ultrasound
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18357