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CT to Cone-Beam CT Deformable Registration With Simultaneous Intensity Correction

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X Zhen

X Zhen1,2*, H Yan1, X Gu3, L Zhou2, X Jia1, S Jiang1 (1) Center for Advanced Radiotherapy Technologies and Department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, 92037-0843, USA (2) Department of Biomedical Engineering, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510515, China (3) UT Southwestern Medical Center, DALLAS, TX, USA

WE-E-213CD-4 Wednesday 2:00:00 PM - 3:50:00 PM Room: 213CD

Purpose: To develop and validate a robust CT to cone-beam (CBCT) deformable image registration algorithm that can handle CBCT artifacts and intensity inconsistency, and thus can yield accurate registration results.

Methods: We propose a new algorithm called Deformation with Intensity Simultaneously Corrected (DISC). DISC distinguishes itself from the original demons by performing an intensity correction procedure on the CBCT image at every iteration step of demons registration. Specifically, the intensity correction of a voxel in CBCT is achieved by matching the first and the second moments of the image intensities inside a patch around this voxel with those on the CT image. It is expected that such a strategy can remove artifacts in the CBCT image, as well as ensuring the intensity consistency between the two modalities and hence facilitating the registration process. DISC is implemented on computer graphics processing units (GPUs) using the compute unified device architecture (CUDA) programming environment. The performance of DISC has been qualitatively and quantitatively evaluated on a simulated patient case and six head-and-neck cancer patient data.

Results: Visual inspection shows that original demons distorts the tissues after registration, especially in regions which are heavily degraded by artifacts. DISC, on the other hand, can effectively register CT and CBCT image even in regions contaminated by severe artifacts. The intensity corrected CBCT that extracted from the last iteration of DISC is artifact-free and has similar histogram distribution with the deformed CT.

Conclusions: We have developed a robust CT to CBCT deformable image registration method that properly deals with the CBCT artifacts and intensity inconsistency, and thus yields accurate registration results.

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