A Piecewise Patch-to-model Matching Method for Image-guided Cardiac Catheter Ablation

Overview

Journal Comput Med Imaging Graph

Specialty Radiology

Date 2011 Mar 8

PMID 21376532

Authors

Jiquan Liu

Maryam E Rettmann

David R Holmes 3rd

Huilong Duan

Richard A Robb

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Abstract

Accurate and fast fusion and display of real-time images of anatomy and associated data is critical for effective use in image guided procedures, including image guided cardiac catheter ablation. We have developed a piecewise patch-to-model matching method, a modification of the contractive projection point technique, for accurate and rapid matching between an intra-operative cardiac surface patch and a pre-operative cardiac surface model. Our method addresses the problems of fusing multi-modality images and using non-rigid deformation between a surface patch and a surface model. A projection lookup table, K-nearest neighborhood search, and a final iteration of point-to-projection are used to reliably find the surface correspondence. Experimental results demonstrate that the method is fast, accurate and robust for real-time matching of intra-operative surface patches to pre-operative 3D surface models of the left atrium.

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