Method and device for co-registering a medical 3d image and a spatial reference

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016267659-A1
Application number	US-201315031390-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 11, 2013
Priority date	Oct 25, 2013
Publication date	Sep 15, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A data processing method for co-registering a medical 3D image dataset and a spatial reference ( 27 ), comprising the steps of: acquiring the 3D image dataset, wherein the 3D image dataset represents a medical CT image, a medical MR image or an angiograph of at least a part ( 20 ) of a patient and a set of hybrid markers ( 11 ); detecting the positions of the hybrid markers ( 11 ) in the 3 D image dataset so as to obtain a scan matrix representing the arrangement of the set of hybrid markers ( 11 ) in the 3D image dataset and the position of the scan matrix in the 3D image dataset; acquiring the positions of the hybrid markers ( 11 ) with respect to the spatial reference ( 27 ), so as to obtain an image matrix ( 22 a ) representing the arrangement of the set of hybrid markers ( 11 ) in three-dimensional space and the position of the image matrix ( 22 a ) relative to the spatial reference ( 27 ); and co-registering the scan matrix and the image matrix ( 22 a ).

First claim

1 - 9 . (canceled)

10 . A data processing system, comprising a computer having a processor configured to execute a computer-implemented medical processing method for co-registering a medical 3D image dataset and a spatial reference, comprising the steps of:
acquiring the 3D image dataset, wherein the 3D image dataset represents a medical CT image, a medical MR image or an angiograph of at least a part of a patient and a set of hybrid markers; detecting the positions of the hybrid markers in the 3D image dataset so as to obtain a scan matrix representing the arrangement of the set of hybrid markers in the 3D image dataset and the position of the scan matrix in the 3D image dataset; acquiring the positions of the hybrid markers with respect to the spatial reference, so as to obtain an image matrix representing the arrangement of the set of hybrid markers in three-dimensional space and the position of the image matrix relative to the spatial reference; co-registering the scan matrix and the image matrix; repeating the step of detecting the positions of the hybrid markers in the 3D image dataset for different search parameters, so as to obtain a plurality of candidate scan matrices; co-registering each of the candidate scan matrices and the image matrix; and selecting the candidate scan matrix which best matches the image matrix as the scan matrix.

11 . A computer-implemented medical data processing method for co-registering a medical 3D image dataset and a spatial reference, the method comprising executing, on a processor of a computer, the steps of:
acquiring, at the processor, the 3D image dataset, wherein the 3D image dataset represents a medical CT image, a medical MR image or an angiograph of at least a part of a patient and a set of hybrid markers; detecting, by the processor, the positions of the hybrid markers in the 3D image dataset so as to obtain a scan matrix representing the arrangement of the set of hybrid markers in the 3D image dataset and the position of the scan matrix in the 3D image dataset; acquiring, at the processor, the positions of the hybrid markers with respect to the spatial reference, so as to obtain an image matrix representing the arrangement of the set of hybrid markers in three-dimensional space and the position of the image matrix relative to the spatial reference; co-registering, by the processor, the scan matrix and the image matrix; repeating, by the processor, the step of detecting the positions of the hybrid markers in the 3D image dataset for different search parameters, so as to obtain a plurality of candidate scan matrices; co-registering, by the processor, each of the candidate scan matrices and the image matrix; and selecting, by the processor, the candidate scan matrix which best matches the image matrix as the scan matrix.

12 . The method according to claim 11 , further comprising the steps of acquiring the position of a reference marker device and using said position as the spatial reference.

13 . The method according to claim 11 , wherein acquiring the positions of the hybrid markers with respect to the spatial reference involves acquiring a stereoscopic dataset which represents a 3D optical image of the hybrid markers and detecting the positions of the hybrid markers in the stereoscopic dataset.

14 . The method according to claim 11 , further comprising the step of adapting the detected positions of the hybrid markers in the 3D image dataset if the hybrid markers have a cylindrical shape.

15 . The method according to claim 14 , wherein adapting a detected position involves determining the axial direction of the cylindrical hybrid marker and shifting the detected position along the axial direction by half the height of the cylinder.

16 . The method according to claim 15 , wherein the axial direction of the cylindrical hybrid marker is determined from the 3D image dataset.

17 . A non-transitory computer-readable program storage medium storing a program which, when executed on a processor of a computer, causes the processor to perform the method steps of:
acquiring the 3D image dataset, wherein the 3D image dataset represents a medical CT image, a medical MR image or an angiograph of at least a part of a patient and a set of hybrid markers; detecting the positions of the hybrid markers in the 3D image dataset so as to obtain a scan matrix representing the arrangement of the set of hybrid markers in the 3D image dataset and the position of the scan matrix in the 3D image dataset; acquiring the positions of the hybrid markers with respect to the spatial reference, so as to obtain an image matrix representing the arrangement of the set of hybrid markers in three-dimensional space and the position of the image matrix relative to the spatial reference; co-registering the scan matrix and the image matrix; repeating the step of detecting the positions of the hybrid markers in the 3D image dataset for different search parameters, so as to obtain a plurality of candidate scan matrices; co-registering each of the candidate scan matrices and the image matrix; and selecting the candidate scan matrix which best matches the image matrix as the scan matrix.

18 . A computer comprising the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 17 .

19 . A device for co-registering a medical 3D image dataset and a spatial reference, comprising the computer according to claim 18 .

Assignees

• Brainlab Ag

Inventors

• Vasey Brian
• Heigl Rupert
• Goette Hubert

Classifications

• A61B2090/3954

  magnetic, e.g. NMR or MRI · CPC title

• G06T7/0012

  Biomedical image inspection · CPC title

• G06T7/0024 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• A61B90/36 Primary

  Image-producing devices or illumination devices not otherwise provided for · CPC title

• A61B2090/3966

  Radiopaque markers visible in an X-ray image · CPC title