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Registration of 3D fetal neurosonography and MRI.
Med. Image Anal. 17, 1137-1150 (2013)
We propose a method for registration of 3D fetal brain ultrasound with a reconstructed magnetic resonance fetal brain volume. This method, for the first time, allows the alignment of models of the fetal brain built from magnetic resonance images with 3D fetal brain ultrasound, opening possibilities to develop new, prior information based image analysis methods for 3D fetal neurosonography. The reconstructed magnetic resonance volume is first segmented using a probabilistic atlas and a pseudo ultrasound image volume is simulated from the segmentation. This pseudo ultrasound image is then affinely aligned with clinical ultrasound fetal brain volumes using a robust block-matching approach that can deal with intensity artefacts and missing features in the ultrasound images. A qualitative and quantitative evaluation demonstrates good performance of the method for our application, in comparison with other tested approaches. The intensity average of 27 ultrasound images co-aligned with the pseudo ultrasound template shows good correlation with anatomy of the fetal brain as seen in the reconstructed magnetic resonance image.
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Publication type
Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
Keywords
Block Matching ; Fetal 3d Ultrasound ; Fetal Neurosonography ; Mr Ultrasound Registration
ISSN (print) / ISBN
1361-8415
e-ISSN
1361-8415
Journal
Medical Image Analysis
Quellenangaben
Volume: 17,
Issue: 8,
Pages: 1137-1150
Publisher
Elsevier
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Reviewing status
Peer reviewed
Institute(s)
Institute for Machine Learning in Biomed Imaging (IML)