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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Lee, Jeongjina | Kim, Kyoung Wonb; * | Kim, So Yeonb | Shin, Juneseukc | Park, Kyung Juna | Won, Hyung Jinb | Shin, Yong Moonb
Affiliations: [a] School of Computer Science and Engineering, Soongsil University, Dongjak-Gu, Seoul, Korea | [b] Department of Radiology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Songpa-ku, Seoul, Korea | [c] Department of Systems Management Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Seobu-ro, Jangan-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeong gi-do, Korea
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Kyoung Won Kim, Department of Radiology and Research Institute of Radiology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine 388-1, Pungnap-2 dong, Songpa-ku, Seoul 138-736, Korea. Tel.: +82 2 3010 4385; Fax: +82 2 476 4719; E-mail: kimkw@amc.seoul.kr
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Multi-phase CT images are obtained sequentially after the injection of contrast agents so that there is a large amount of local deformation between images due to the respiratory and heart motion. Therefore, a non-rigid registration technique is required in order to establish the anatomical correspondence between the multi-phase CT images for liver CAD (computer-aided diagnosis). OBJECTIVE: In this paper, we propose the automatic detection method of hepatocellular carcinomas using the non-rigid registration method of multi-phase CT images. METHODS: Global movements between multi-phase CT images are aligned by rigid registration based on normalized mutual information. Local deformations between multi-phase CT images are modeled by non-rigid registration based on B-spline deformable model. After the registration of multi-phase CT images, hepatocellular carcinomas are automatically detected by analyzing the original and subtraction information of the registered multi-phase CT images. RESULTS: We applied our method to twenty five multi-phase CT datasets. Experimental results showed that the multi-phase CT images were accurately aligned. All of the hepatocellular carcinomas including small size ones in our 25 subjects were accurately detected using our method. CONCLUSION: We conclude that our method is useful for detecting hepatocellular carcinomas.
Keywords: Multi-phase liver CT, hepatocellular carcinoma, rigid registration, non-rigid registration, normalized mutual information, B-spline deformable model, cancer detection
DOI: 10.3233/XST-150487
Journal: Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 275-288, 2015
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