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Fast Marker-based Registration of 3D CT and 2D X-ray Fluoroscopy Images  

Kim Gye-Hyun (서울대학교 컴퓨터학과)
Park Seong-Jin (서울대학교 컴퓨터학과)
Hong He-Len (서울여자대학교 미디어학부)
Shin Yeong-Gil (서울대학교 컴퓨터학과)
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Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications / v.33, no.3, 2006 , pp. 335-343 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper proposes a novel technique of marker-based 2D-3D registration to combine 3D information obtained from preoperative CT images into 2D image obtained from intraoperative x-ray fluoroscopy image. Our method is divided into preoperative and intraoperative procedures. In preoperative procedure, we generate CT-derived DRRs using graphics hardware and detect markers automatically. In intraoperative procedure, we propose a hierarchical two- step registration to reduce a degree of freedom from 6-DOP to 2-DOF which is composed of in-plane registration using principal axis method and out-plane registration using minimal error searching method in spherical coordinate. For experimentation, we use cardiac phantom datasets with confirmation markers and evaluate our method in the aspects of visual inspection, accuracy and processing time. As experimental results, our method keeps accuracy and aligns very fast by reducing real-time computations.
Keywords
2D-3D Registration; Multidimensional Registration; Marker-based Registration; DRRs; Graphics Hardware; Image Guided Surgery;
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