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- Title
Nonrigid Registration of Prostate Diffusion-Weighted MRI.
- Authors
Hao, Lei; Huang, Yali; Gao, Yuehua; Chen, Xiaoxi; Wang, Peiguang
- Abstract
Motion and deformation are common in prostate diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) during acquisition. These misalignments lead to errors in estimating an apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) map fitted with DWI. To address this problem, we propose an image registration algorithm to align the prostate DWI and improve ADC map. First, we apply affine transformation to DWI to correct intraslice motions. Then, nonrigid registration based on free-form deformation (FFD) is used to compensate for intraimage deformations. To evaluate the influence of the proposed algorithm on ADC values, we perform statistical experiments in three schemes: no processing of the DWI, with the affine transform approach, and with FFD. The experimental results show that our proposed algorithm can correct the misalignment of prostate DWI and decrease the artifacts of ROI in the ADC maps. These ADC maps thus obtain sharper contours of lesions, which are helpful for improving the diagnosis and clinical staging of prostate cancer.
- Subjects
PROSTATE; DIFFUSION magnetic resonance imaging; DIFFUSION coefficients; FREE form deformation (Computer graphics); AFFINE transformations
- Publication
Journal of Healthcare Engineering, 2017, p1
- ISSN
2040-2295
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2017/9296354