Abstract
The robustness and accuracy of the intensity-based 3D/2D registration of a 3D model on planar X-ray image(s) is related to the quality of the image correspondences between the digitally reconstructed radiographs (DRR) generated from the 3D models (varying image) and the X-ray images (fixed target). While much effort may be devoted to generating realistic DRR that are similar to real X-rays (using complex X-ray simulation, adding densities information in 3D models, etc.), significant differences still remain between DRR and real X-ray images. Differences such as the presence of adjacent or superimposed soft tissue and bony or foreign structures lead to image matching difficulties and decrease the 3D/2D registration performance. In the proposed method, the X-ray images were converted into DRR images using a GAN-based cross-modality image-to-images translation. With this added prior step of XRAY-to-DRR translation, standard similarity measures become efficient even when using simple and fast DRR projection. For both images to match, they must belong to the same image domain and essentially contain the same kind of information. The XRAY-to-DRR translation also addresses the well-known issue of registering an object in a scene composed of multiple objects by separating the superimposed or/and adjacent objects to avoid mismatching across similar structures. We applied the proposed method to the 3D/2D fine registration of vertebra deformable models to biplanar radiographs of the spine. We showed that the XRAY-to-DRR translation enhances the registration results, by increasing the capture range and decreasing dependence on the similarity measure choice since the multi-modal registration becomes mono-modal.
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