Deep learning-aided CBCT image reconstruction of interventional material from four x-ray projections

Elias Eulig; Joscha Maier; N. Robert Bennett; Michael Knaup; Klaus Hörndler; Adam Wang; Marc Kachelrieß

doi:10.1117/12.2548662

16 March 2020 Deep learning-aided CBCT image reconstruction of interventional material from four x-ray projections

Elias Eulig, Joscha Maier, N. Robert Bennett, Michael Knaup, Klaus Hörndler, Adam Wang, Marc Kachelrieß

Proceedings Volume 11312, Medical Imaging 2020: Physics of Medical Imaging; 113121L (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2548662
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2020, Houston, Texas, United States

Abstract

Interventional guidance aims at providing the radiologist with detailed information about the location and orientation of interventional tools such as guide wires and stents. Most commonly, this is done by acquiring fluoroscopic images using an interventional C-arm system. Due to its projective nature, fluoroscopy is restricted to provide information from two spatial dimensions, preventing an exact 3D localization of the interventional tools. Analogous to computed tomography for diagnostic imaging, four-dimensional (three spatial dimensions plus the temporal dimension) interventional guidance has the potential to drastically improve both the speed and accuracy of such interventions, but is currently impractical due to the excessively high dose that would be necessary for continuous cone-beam CT (CBCT) scanning at high frame rates.

In this work we develop a novel deep learning-based approach to reconstruct interventional tools from only four x-ray projections. We train and test this deep tool reconstruction (DTR) network on simulated data. Only small deviations from the ground truth (GT) reconstruction of the tools were observed, both quantitatively and qualitatively, showing that deep learning-based four-dimensional interventional guidance has the potential to overcome the drawbacks of conventional interventional guidance in the future.

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Elias Eulig, Joscha Maier, N. Robert Bennett, Michael Knaup, Klaus Hörndler, Adam Wang, and Marc Kachelrieß "Deep learning-aided CBCT image reconstruction of interventional material from four x-ray projections", Proc. SPIE 11312, Medical Imaging 2020: Physics of Medical Imaging, 113121L (16 March 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2548662

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