自动配准心肌灌注与冠脉造影图像,精准定位缺血区域。
Point Cloud Registration for Fusion between SPECT MPI and CTA Images
- 用U-Net分割心脏结构,自动提取解剖标志点
- BCPD-plus-plus配准达1.7mm精度,保留冠脉亚毫米细节
- 无需依赖特定算法,适合临床缺血评估与病变功能分析
临床中单光子发射计算机断层显像心肌灌注(SPECT MPI)与冠状动脉造影(CTA)的融合受限于跨模态配准不准及对人工标记点的依赖,影响缺血定位与病灶功能评估。为此,提出一种集成功能与结构信息的SPECT-CTA配准融合框架。该流程在双模态上采用U-Net分割:仅提取SPECT中的左心室(LV),基于其特征结构自动生成解剖标志点;在CTA中分割双心室,利用室间隔交界处空间关系自动定义标志点。通过尺度空间一致性预处理和标志点驱动粗配准缓解初始偏差。在此基础上,评估多种精细配准方法(ICP、SICP、CPD、CluReg、FFD、BCPD-plus-plus)在左心室外膜点云上的表现,结果经变换传播至体素级重采样,实现高精度融合。回顾性60例患者数据表明,该框架在保持CTA亚毫米级冠脉细节的同时,精确叠加定量SPECT灌注信息。其中BCPD-plus-plus达到最优精度,平均点云距离为1.7 mm。该方法结合鲁棒初始化、多方法对比与体素级融合,提供了一种不依赖特定精细配准算法的实用缺血定位与冠脉病灶功能评估方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Clinical fusion of Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography Myocardial Perfusion Imaging (SPECT MPI) and Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA) remains limited by cross-modality misregistration and reliance on manual landmarks, which can hinder accurate ischemia localization and lesion-level functional assessment. To address this issue, we propose a registration and fusion framework for SPECT MPI and CTA that integrates functional and structural information for comprehensive cardiac evaluation. The proposed pipeline performs U-Net-based segmentation on both modalities. On SPECT MPI, only the left ventricle (LV) is extracted, and anatomical landmarks are automatically derived from characteristic LV structures. On CTA, both ventricles are segmented, and their spatial relationship is used to automatically define landmarks at the interventricular septal junction. Scale-space consistency preprocessing and landmark-driven coarse registration are applied to mitigate initial misalignment. Based on this initialization, multiple fine registration methods are evaluated on LV epicardial surface point clouds, including ICP, SICP, CPD, CluReg, FFD, and BCPD-plus-plus. The resulting transformations are then propagated to voxel-level resampling for high-precision SPECT-CTA fusion. In a retrospective cohort of 60 patients, the proposed framework preserved sub-millimeter coronary detail from CTA while accurately overlaying quantitative SPECT perfusion. Among the evaluated methods, BCPD-plus-plus achieved the highest accuracy with a mean point cloud distance of 1.7 mm. By combining robust initialization, comparative fine registration, and voxel-level fusion, the proposed approach provides a practical solution for myocardial ischemia localization and functional evaluation of coronary lesions, while remaining independent of any specific fine registration algorithm.
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