Spatiotemporal registration and fusion of transthoracic echocardiography and volumetric coronary artery tree (original) (raw)

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2021

Abstract

Cardiac multimodal image fusion can offer an image with various types of information in a single image. Many coronary stenosis, which are anatomically clear, are not functionally significant. The treatment of such kind of stenosis can cause irreversible effects on the patient. Thus, choosing the best treatment planning depend on anatomical and functional information is very beneficial. An algorithm for the fusion of coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) as an anatomical and transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) as a functional modality is presented. CCTA and TTE are temporally registered using manifold learning. A pattern search optimization algorithm, using normalized mutual information, is used to find the best match slice to TTE frame from CCTA volume. By employing a free-form deformation, the heart's non-rigid deformations are modeled. The spatiotemporal registered TTE frame is embedded to achieve the fusion result. The accuracy is evaluated on CCTA and TTE data obt...

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