Title
CAR-Net: A Deep Learning-Based Deformation Model for 3D/2D Coronary Artery Registration
Abstract
Percutaneous coronary intervention is widely applied for the treatment of coronary artery disease under the guidance of X-ray coronary angiography (XCA) image. However, the projective nature of XCA causes the loss of 3D structural information, which hinders the intervention. This issue can be addressed by the deformable 3D/2D coronary artery registration technique, which fuses the pre-operative computed tomography angiography volume with the intra-operative XCA image. In this study, we propose a deep learning-based neural network for this task. The registration is conducted in a segment-by-segment manner. For each vessel segment pair, the centerlines that preserve topological information are decomposed into an origin tensor and a spherical coordinate shape tensor as network input through independent branches. Features of different modalities are fused and processed for predicting angular deflections, which is a special type of deformation field implying motion and length preservation constraints for vessel segments. The proposed method achieves an average error of 1.13 mm on the clinical dataset, which shows the potential to be applied in clinical practice.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TMI.2022.3168786
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Keywords
DocType
Volume
3D/2D coronary artery registration,deep learning,centerline decomposition,angular deflections prediction
Journal
41
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
0278-0062
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wei Wu112454.63
Jingyang Zhang243.71
Wenjia Peng300.34
Hongzhi Xie400.34
Shuyang Zhang501.01
Lixu Gu684.96