Image fusion with automated compensation for brain deformation
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1. A system, comprising:
- a model to represent a volumetric deformation of a brain, stored in a memory, corresponding to brain tissue that has been displaced or shifted by at least one of disease, surgery or anatomical changes; and
a fusion engine, executed by a processor, to employ the model to perform a coarse fusion to align a first three-dimensional image of a patient'"'"'s brain with respect to a second three-dimensional image of the patient'"'"'s brain after a region of the brain has been displaced or shifted,wherein the coarse function comprises;
determining an initial volume of at least one selected anatomic region in the first three-dimensional image of the patient'"'"'s brain and another volume of the at least one selected anatomic region in the second three-dimensional image of the patient'"'"'s brain;
computing shrinkage or growth factors from the first three-dimensional image of the patient'"'"'s brain based on a difference between the initial volume and the another volume for the at least one selected anatomic region;
generating a mapping between the first and second three-dimensional images of the patient'"'"'s brain based on the computed shrinkage or growth factors and at least one volume parameter of the model to provide feedback that compensates for distortion between the first and second three-dimensional images of the patient'"'"'s brain; and
adjusting one or more points on a displacement vector of the model extending through the at least one selected anatomic region to compensate for spatial deformations that occur between the first and second image of the patient'"'"'s brain based on the mapping.
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Abstract
A system can include a model to represent a volumetric deformation of a brain corresponding to brain tissue that has been displaced by at least one of disease, surgery or anatomical changes. A fusion engine can perform a coarse and/or fine fusion to align a first image of the brain with respect to a second image of the brain after a region of the brain has been displaced and to employ the deformation model to adjust one or more points on a displacement vector extending through a displaced region of the brain to compensate for spatial deformations that occur between the first and second image of the brain.
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1. A system, comprising:
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a model to represent a volumetric deformation of a brain, stored in a memory, corresponding to brain tissue that has been displaced or shifted by at least one of disease, surgery or anatomical changes; and
a fusion engine, executed by a processor, to employ the model to perform a coarse fusion to align a first three-dimensional image of a patient'"'"'s brain with respect to a second three-dimensional image of the patient'"'"'s brain after a region of the brain has been displaced or shifted,wherein the coarse function comprises; determining an initial volume of at least one selected anatomic region in the first three-dimensional image of the patient'"'"'s brain and another volume of the at least one selected anatomic region in the second three-dimensional image of the patient'"'"'s brain; computing shrinkage or growth factors from the first three-dimensional image of the patient'"'"'s brain based on a difference between the initial volume and the another volume for the at least one selected anatomic region; generating a mapping between the first and second three-dimensional images of the patient'"'"'s brain based on the computed shrinkage or growth factors and at least one volume parameter of the model to provide feedback that compensates for distortion between the first and second three-dimensional images of the patient'"'"'s brain; and adjusting one or more points on a displacement vector of the model extending through the at least one selected anatomic region to compensate for spatial deformations that occur between the first and second image of the patient'"'"'s brain based on the mapping. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method comprising:
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performing a non-rigid alignment between the first three-dimensional image data and the second three-dimensional image data comprising; determining an initial volume for at least one selected anatomic region in a first three-dimensional brain image for a patient; determining another volume for the at least one selected anatomic region in a second three-dimensional brain image for the patient; computing shrinkage or growth factors from the first three-dimensional brain image based on a difference between the initial volume and the another volume for the at least one selected anatomic region; and generating a mapping between the first and second three-dimensional brain images based on the computed shrinkage or growth factors and at least one volume parameter for the brain to provide feedback that compensates for distortion between the first and second three-dimensional brain images; and generating a vector field mapping based on the non-rigid alignment to provide displacement data to a user regarding displacement between the first image data and the second image data. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13)
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14. A method, comprising:
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accessing a first three-dimensional image data of an anatomical feature for a patient and second three-dimensional image data of the anatomical feature for the patient; performing a non-rigid alignment between the first three-dimensional image data and the second three-dimensional image data comprising; determining an initial volume for at least one selected anatomic region in the first three-dimensional image data and determining another volume for the at least one selected anatomic region in the second three-dimensional image data; computing a shrinkage or growth factor from the first three-dimensional brain image based on a difference between the initial volume and the another volume for the at least one selected anatomic region; and generating a mapping between the first and second three-dimensional image data based on the computed shrinkage or growth factors and at least one volume parameter for the brain to provide feedback that compensates for distortion between the first and second three-dimensional image data; and generating a vector field mapping based on the non-rigid alignment to provide displacement data to a user regarding displacement between the first image data and the second image data. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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