Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering (Sep 2020)

Towards automated correction of brain shift using deep deformable magnetic resonance imaging-intraoperative ultrasound (MRI-iUS) registration

  • Zeineldin Ramy A.,
  • Karar Mohamed E.,
  • Coburger Jan,
  • Wirtz Christian R.,
  • Mathis-Ullrich Franziska,
  • Burgert Oliver

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/cdbme-2020-0039
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 1
pp. 67 – 73

Abstract

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Intraoperative brain deformation, so-called brain shift, affects the applicability of preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data to assist the procedures of intraoperative ultrasound (iUS) guidance during neurosurgery. This paper proposes a deep learning-based approach for fast and accurate deformable registration of preoperative MRI to iUS images to correct brain shift. Based on the architecture of 3D convolutional neural networks, the proposed deep MRI-iUS registration method has been successfully tested and evaluated on the retrospective evaluation of cerebral tumors (RESECT) dataset. This study showed that our proposed method outperforms other registration methods in previous studies with an average mean squared error (MSE) of 85. Moreover, this method can register three 3D MRI-US pair in less than a second, improving the expected outcomes of brain surgery.

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