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3D–2D image registration for target localization in spine surgery: investigation of similarity metrics providing robustness to content mismatch
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Abstract In image-guided spine surgery, robust three-dimensional to two-dimensional (3D–2D) registration of preoperative computed tomography (CT) and intraoperative radiographs can be challenged by the image content mismatch associated with the presence of surgical instrumentation and implants as well as soft-tissue resection or deformation. This work investigates image similarity metrics in 3D–2D registration offering improved robustness against mismatch, thereby improving performance and reducing or eliminating the need for manual masking. The performance of four gradient-based image similarity metrics (gradient information (GI), gradient correlation (GC), gradient information with linear scaling (GS), and gradient orientation (GO)) with a multi-start optimization strategy was evaluated in an institutional review board-approved retrospective clinical study using 51 preoperative CT images and 115 intraoperative mobile radiographs. Registrations were tested with and without polygonal masks as a function of the number of multistarts employed during optimization. Registration accuracy was evaluated in terms of the projection distance error (PDE) and assessment of failure modes (PDE > 30 mm) that could impede reliable vertebral level localization. With manual polygonal masking and 200 multistarts, the GC and GO metrics exhibited robust performance with 0% gross failures and median PDE < 6.4 mm (±4.4 mm interquartile range (IQR)) and a median runtime of 84 s (plus upwards of 1–2 min for manual masking). Excluding manual polygonal masks and decreasing the number of multistarts to 50 caused the GC-based registration to fail at a rate of >14%; however, GO maintained robustness with a 0% gross failure rate. Overall, the GI, GC, and GS metrics were susceptible to registration errors associated with content mismatch, but GO provided robust registration (median PDE = 5.5 mm, 2.6 mm IQR) without manual masking and with an improved runtime (29.3 s). The GO metric improved the registration accuracy and robustness in the presence of strong image content mismatch. This capability could offer valuable assistance and decision support in spine level localization in a manner consistent with clinical workflow.
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This study evaluated four gradient-based similarity metrics for 3D–2D CT-to-radiograph registration in spine surgery under image content mismatch. Gradient orientation (GO) was most robust, maintaining 0% gross failures without manual polygonal masking and with shorter runtime.
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- With manual polygonal masking and 200 multistarts, GC and GO achieved 0% gross failures and median projection distance error (PDE) < 6.4 mm (±4.4 mm IQR), with median runtime of 84 s plus 1–2 min for manual masking.
- Without manual polygonal masks and with 50 multistarts, GC failed at >14%, while GO maintained 0% gross failure, median PDE = 5.5 mm (2.6 mm IQR), and runtime = 29.3 s.
- GI and GS were susceptible to content mismatch; in the R(p, 200) configuration they had >16% failure, though GS improved gross failure rate over GI by approximately 50%. In R(r, 50), GC gross failure increased to 15%.
- GO had the largest median capture range in the superior–inferior direction: 375 mm ± 122 mm IQR, versus GI 192 mm ± 214 mm, GC 345 mm ± 185 mm, and GS 293 mm ± 180 mm.
Methods
- Institutional review board-approved retrospective clinical study using 51 preoperative CT images and 115 intraoperative mobile radiographs from thoracolumbar spine surgery; radiographs included 105 lateral and 10 anterior–posterior projections.
- Four gradient-based similarity metrics were tested: gradient information (GI), gradient correlation (GC), gradient information with linear scaling (GS), and gradient orientation (GO), using multistart optimization with CMA-ES.
- Registration performance was evaluated under three configurations—R(p, 200), R(p, 50), and R(r, 50)—using PDE, failure defined as PDE > 30 mm, runtime, objective-function search-space quality, and sensitivity to superior–inferior initialization.
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- The paper states that spine deformation is not specifically addressed by the rigid registration approach, and that ongoing clinical evaluation is needed.
- The paper states that manual polygonal masking is time-consuming, subjective, error-prone, and disruptive to workflow; GS and modified GC also require parameters that are non-trivial to determine automatically.
- Evident from the text: the study is retrospective and single-institution, uses mostly lateral radiographs, and relies on neuroradiologist-annotated vertebral centroids as reference truth.
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“However, the challenge due to content mismatch was mitigated by manually defined polygonal masks that excluded extraneous regions during similarity metric evaluation.”
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The Patient study section (page unavailable) says a weighting mask can down-weight regions with deformation or instrumentation so they contribute less to the similarity metric. It says such masks could potentially be made manually, but does not describe polygonal masks or establish that manually defined masks were used to mitigate content mismatch in this study. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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“The GI and GC metrics have been shown previously (Penney et al 1998, Pluim et al 2000, Otake et al 2012b) to be useful when handling partial content mismatch.”
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Methods §2.1 says GI is robust to image-content mismatches, including surgical tools visible in fluoroscopy but absent from the preoperative CT. The Introduction identifies GC as a local-intensity metric and describes that category as generally robust in 3D–2D registration, but the paper does not specifically establish GC’s usefulness for partial content mismatch. Page numbers were not provided in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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“From the similarity metrics that have been previously investigated, gradient-based metrics have shown promise in 3D–2D image registration problems involving intraoperative radiographs and preoperative CT images (Penney et al 1998, Gendrin et al 2011, Otake et al 2012b, 2015).”
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The Introduction describes registration of intrainterventional 2D images with preinterventional 3D images. The Results and Discussion report accurate gradient-based registration of CT volumes to kV and MV x-ray images, supporting the claim that these metrics show promise for this type of problem. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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“For example, previous work on vertebral level localization in spine surgery (Lo et al 2015, Otake et al 2015) showed promising results with GC similarity.”
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The Methods (§2.2) state that the study used gradient correlation (GC) as its registration similarity metric. The Patient study (§3.3) reports approximately 1.13 mm average landmark projection error with 9-DOF registration in two spine-surgery patients, while the Discussion (§4) identifies vertebral localization in spine surgery as a potential application. These are promising preliminary results, rather than a definitive clinical validation of level localization. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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“GO exhibited the best overall performance with a median capture range of 375 mm ± 122 mm IQR measured at the detector.”
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“These data exhibited a substantial degree of realistic variation in imaging protocols/techniques, image quality, and imaging systems used for preoperative and intraoperative imaging.”
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“For all the metrics, the space exhibits numerous false local optima associated with surgical instruments present in the radiograph (but not the CT) or the semiperiodic structure of the spine itself in the S–I direction.”
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“The GC and GO metrics maintained superior performance in comparison to GI and GS.”
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“For the R(p, 200) configuration (i.e. 2D polygonal masks and 200 multistarts), both the GC and GO metrics exhibited an accurate and robust performance.”
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“Comparing the GI, GS, and GC metrics to the GO metric, table 2 marks the cases (*) for which the PDE distribution was statistically significantly different (p < 0.05).”
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“The GI and GS metrics failed to achieve a clinically acceptable level of accuracy, suffering a >16% failure rate”
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“although GS improved the gross failure rate compared to GI by approximately 50%.”
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“Thus, the improvements in robustness observed with 200 multistarts come with approximately three-fold increase in computation time.”
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“Reducing to 50 multistarts in the R(p, 50) configuration (as shown in figure 4(b)) improves the runtime”
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“the gradients produced by instrumentation appearing in the radiograph (but not the CT) tend to dominate the similarity metric value for the GI, GC, and GS metrics.”
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“While the modified metric showed an improved overall performance compared to conventional (untruncated) GC”
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“Due to its ability to handle mismatch, GO yielded a comparable performance when the number of multistarts was decreased from 200 to 50.”
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“In conclusion, we have extended the LevelCheck 3D–2D registration algorithm to incorporate an improved objective function that exhibits stronger robustness to the image content mismatch observed in real clinical images.”
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“The benefit of increasing the number of multistarts is evident in table 2 (column R(p, 200) relative to R(p, 50)), showing a reduction in failure rate (i.e. PDE > 30 mm).”
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“However, increasing the number of multistarts did not necessarily improve the precision of the registration, as observed in the median ± IQR PDE”
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“The min operator applied in these metrics imparts a flattening effect in the search space and can challenge the optimizer to reach the solution.”
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“and presents an implementation that is advantageous with respect to clinical workflow (via a simple, potentially automatic definition of a rectangular mask).”
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“This suggests that the challenging configuration RGO(r, 50) produces a similar PDE distribution to the more manually intensive RGO(p, 200) and RGO(p, 50) configurations.”
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“Therefore, unless these extraneous gradients are masked from the image (as with the manual p mask as in previous work (Lo et al 2015), the registration is susceptible to failure.”
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“The main advantage of GO is that both the instrumentation and vertebrae gradients contribute similar weights to the overall metric value.”
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“As long as vertebral bodies produce a larger spatial distribution of gradients in comparison to those produced by the extraneous objects, the desired solution of accurately aligning vertebrae is more favorable within the GO search space.”
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“A slight improvement in the GO registration when compared with R(p, 50) is attributed to the additional benefit of relevant anatomical information included with rectangle masking but masked out with polygonal masking.”
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“This capture range spans approximately 12 vertebra in the S–I direction.”
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“Image content mismatch caused by surgical instruments introduced between the preoperative CT and intraoperative radiographs can be problematic in achieving robust registration.”
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“while GI and GC metrics have been developed with the inherent capacity to handle registrations with partial mismatch.”
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“Gradient information (GI), gradient correlation (GC), and gradient difference (GD) have shown superior performance in 3D–2D registration applications in previous studies”
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“However, this assumption is often not valid, since extraneous objects, differences in real/simulated projections may contribute to the similarity metric value.”
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“In image-guided spine surgery, robust three-dimensional to two-dimensional (3D–2D) registration of preoperative computed tomography (CT) and intraoperative radiographs can be challenged by the image content mismatch associated with the presence of surgical instrumentation and implants as well as soft-tissue resection or deformation.”
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“The performance exhibited by the GC metric is consistent with that in (Lo et al 2015).”
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“The image similarity metric is an important component within the registration framework that plays an important role in the robustness of registration in the presence of content mismatch.”
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“The result is encouraging in that it suggests a high level of robustness to S–I initialization error, particularly considering the ability to move through multiple false local maxima associated with one-level error, two-level error, and so on.”
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“For the GI and GC metrics, this tends to direct the registration to a false (erroneous) solution.”
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“Our results indicate that similarity metrics that rely upon gradient magnitudes tend to be more susceptible to registration failure under such conditions.”
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“This may be attributed to the fact that the extraneous objects produce stronger gradient magnitudes than those of the vertebrae and therefore can dominate the search space and drive the solution to false local maxima.”
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“it suffered from the same limitation of automatically determining the parameter β that is dependent on the degree of image content mismatch.”
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“The slight improvement in registration accuracy for RGO(r, 50) compared to RGO(p, 50) could be attributable to this additional image content available with the simple rectangular mask.”
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“complex polygonal masks about surgical implants within verte-brae can partially occlude vertebral boundaries (cortical margins) that are salient features for registration.”
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“One challenge in the design of the GS metric is the selection of the parameter that attempts to match the gradient magnitudes of similar anatomical objects in the DRR and radiograph.”
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“Given the clinical need to identify the correct vertebral level within approximately 30 mm PDE (i.e. within the correct vertebral body), the rigid registration framework may be sufficient if the labels can be projected in close proximity to the accurate vertebral levels when deformation occurs.”
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“While all of the above metrics rely upon gradient magnitudes, gradient orientation on its own has been widely used for feature matching (Lowe 2004), object detection (Dalal and Triggs 2005), and image registration (De Nigris et al 2012), and shown promise in robust matching under partial occlusion and view point changes.”
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“Considering an average thoracolumbar vertebral height (superior–inferior direction) of 22 mm (Busscher et al 2010)”
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Table 3 (Results, Vertebral bodies; page not provided) reports human vertebral-body heights by thoracic and lumbar level. The values vary by level and measurement position but support 22 mm as an approximate thoracolumbar height; the paper does not give 22 mm as a single pooled mean. (LLM, conf=0.83)
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“For the acquired radiographs, the magnification factor at the detector typically ranged from 1.4–1.6.”
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“The other metrics demonstrated a fairly broad capture range as well: GI capture range = 192 mm ± 214 mm IQR; GC capture range = 345 mm ± 185 mm IQR; and GS capture range = 293 mm ± 180 mm IQR.”
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“The PDE following initialization ranged from 11.3 to 111.1 mm (median PDE = 43.1 mm, interquartile range 20.9 mm).”
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“The GO metric, on the other hand, maintained geometric accuracy and robustness.”
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“On the other hand, GC shows a more distinct optimum at the solution, but it also exhibits sharp local maxima attributed to strong gradient magnitudes far from the solution (surgical instruments).”
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“While all metrics align corresponding square and circle elements at the desired solution, the mismatching triangle at the degenerate solution causes the GI, GC metrics to yield a larger relative contribution to the overall metric value.”
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“but GO provided robust registration (median PDE = 5.5 mm, 2.6 mm IQR) without manual masking and with an improved runtime (29.3 s).”
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“The performance of the GI, GC, and GS metrics degraded significantly, e.g. the gross failure rate for GC increasing to 15%.”
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“For GI and GS, the peak at the solution is less distinct from surrounding local maxima, although GS appears improved over GI (consistent with improved robustness noted above).”
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“the average computation time ranged from 23–29 s for the S = 50 configurations, compared to 65–85 s for the S = 200 configuration.”
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“Among distributions RGO(p, 200), RGO(p, 50), and RGO(r, 50), we found p-value >0.94 failing to reject the null hypothesis that the PDE distributions have the same median.”
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“For the GO metric, the gradient magnitude values do not dominate the overall metric value, and the desired solution is reached wherein corresponding vertebrae gradients align in a manner that is robust against extraneous gradients and occlusions from instrumentation.”
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“The GO metric exhibits the most distinct global optimum at the solution and suppresses false maxima far from the solution.”
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“With manual polygonal masking and 200 multistarts, the GC and GO metrics exhibited robust performance with 0% gross failures and median PDE < 6.4 mm (±4.4 mm interquartile range (IQR)) and a median runtime of 84 s (plus upwards of 1–2 min for manual masking).”
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“Overall, the RGO(r, 50) configuration outperformed all of the GI, GS, and GC configurations in terms of geometric accuracy, robustness, and run time”
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“but compromises the robustness of the registration and results in an increasing failure rate for all of the similarity metrics.”
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“but such mm-scale variations in PDE in table 2 were not statistically significant (p = 0.52, 0.72, 0.10, and 0.07 for GI, GC, GS, and GO, respectively) and are likely not clinically significant with respect to localizing a particular vertebral body.”
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“Although the GS metric somewhat improved the registration performance compared to GI, it did not exhibit particularly strong robustness to failure (>16%) over all the tested configurations.”
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“In spine surgery, for example, the following sources of mismatch are common occurrences (as shown in figure 1) and present particular challenges to 3D–2D registration: (a) The presence of surgical instrumentation in the intraoperative radiograph (e.g. retractors, screws, implants, clips, etc); and (b) non-rigid anatomical deformation”
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“However, such an approach increases the computational burden and makes the registration algorithm susceptible to segmentation errors.”
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“GC can accommodate such differences up to a linear factor and therefore offers some degree of robustness against mismatch:”
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“Such broad capture ranges are partly attributable to the similarity metric and perhaps more so to the robust optimization strategy involving multiple parallel searches from multiple initial seed points.”
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“Increasing the number of multistarts (denoted S in figure 2) boosts the density of seed points positioned within the multidimensional space and therefore improves the robustness of finding the global optima at the cost of additional computation in performing parallel searches (roughly proportional to the number of multi-starts).”
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“The min operator in GI assumes that anatomical structures produce a constant gradient magnitude in both DRRs and radiographs.”
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“Image gradients can be used to filter out low spatial frequency differences such as soft tissue (Penney et al 1998, Pluim et al 2000) and act as a high-pass filter to focus the registration on the bony anatomy clearly visible in x-ray images.”
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“The GO similarity metric thereby exhibits robust performance against content mismatch and enables the definition of a simple rectangular mask of the radiograph collimators to reduce or eliminate the need for polygonal masking.”
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“The GO metric improved the registration accuracy and robustness in the presence of strong image content mismatch.”
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“the definition of manual polygonal masks is subject to user variability and tends to exclude regions that may be disadvantageous to registration.”
§ 3D–2D image registration for target localization in spine surgery: investigation of similarity metrics providing robustness to content mismatch > 4. Discussion and conclusions
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“Manual/semi-automatic methods to mask out such extraneous (or missing) content are time consuming, user dependent, error prone, and disruptive to workflow.”
§ 3D–2D image registration for target localization in spine surgery: investigation of similarity metrics providing robustness to content mismatch > 1. Introduction
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“This capability could offer valuable assistance and decision support in spine level localization in a manner consistent with clinical workflow.”
§ 3D–2D image registration for target localization in spine surgery: investigation of similarity metrics providing robustness to content mismatch > Abstract
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“The definition of polygons to mask extraneous objects is a slow, subjective step that is error prone and limits the practical utility of image-based registration within streamlined workflow.”
§ 3D–2D image registration for target localization in spine surgery: investigation of similarity metrics providing robustness to content mismatch > 1. Introduction
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“Content mismatch caused by extraneous objects and tissue deformation can create a challenging search space with multiple local optima.”
§ 3D–2D image registration for target localization in spine surgery: investigation of similarity metrics providing robustness to content mismatch > 2. Methods and materials > 2.3. 3D–2D registration framework
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“For the GS metric, this effect is mitigated partly by the scaling parameter α; however, the exclusion of extraneous gradients requires estimating α to accurately match the corresponding gradients in the two images.”
§ 3D–2D image registration for target localization in spine surgery: investigation of similarity metrics providing robustness to content mismatch > 3. Results > 3.1. Registration accuracy and robustness
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“The challenging search space illustrated in figure 6 shows multiple local maxima resulting from extraneous objects and stands to benefit from the multistart optimization strategy to improve robustness.”
§ 3D–2D image registration for target localization in spine surgery: investigation of similarity metrics providing robustness to content mismatch > 4. Discussion and conclusions
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“Deformation of the spine is not specifically addressed in the current (rigid) registration approach, but the large clinical dataset did present realistic levels of anatomical deformation.”
§ 3D–2D image registration for target localization in spine surgery: investigation of similarity metrics providing robustness to content mismatch > 4. Discussion and conclusions
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“Moreover, the corresponding increase in robustness has diminishing return due to the ‘curse of dimensionality’ in the 6D search space, whereas the computation time increases approximately linearly with the number of multistarts.”
§ 3D–2D image registration for target localization in spine surgery: investigation of similarity metrics providing robustness to content mismatch > 4. Discussion and conclusions
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“We evaluated this parameter by computing the ratio of maximum gradient magnitudes observed between the two images; however, the parameter should be adjusted according to mismatch caused by strong gradient magnitudes. Automatic determination of the parameter for any given pair of images is non-trivial.”
§ 3D–2D image registration for target localization in spine surgery: investigation of similarity metrics providing robustness to content mismatch > 4. Discussion and conclusions
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“Therefore, it is desirable for the registration framework to rely less upon the number of multistarts, an attribute exhibited with the incorporation of the GO similarity metric.”
§ 3D–2D image registration for target localization in spine surgery: investigation of similarity metrics providing robustness to content mismatch > 4. Discussion and conclusions
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“These improvements better enable clinical translation of the registration algorithm”
§ 3D–2D image registration for target localization in spine surgery: investigation of similarity metrics providing robustness to content mismatch > 4. Discussion and conclusions
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“Another drawback of the polygonal masking approach is that it requires the user to anticipate and identify problematic gradients in a radiograph with many subtleties.”
§ 3D–2D image registration for target localization in spine surgery: investigation of similarity metrics providing robustness to content mismatch > 4. Discussion and conclusions
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“The small variations in PDE could be attributed to errors in the localization of the vertebrae centroid (expert reader truth definition), the stochasticity of the CMA-ES optimizer, and/or fundamental limitations arising from the use of similarity metrics as surrogate measures of registration accuracy during the optimization process.”
§ 3D–2D image registration for target localization in spine surgery: investigation of similarity metrics providing robustness to content mismatch > 4. Discussion and conclusions
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The transformation between preoperative CT and intraoperative radiograph can be modeled as a rigid 6D transformation.
“The registration is performed by optimizing the image similarity between the preoperative CT image and the intraoperative radiograph (I2:R2→R) in a rigid 6D transformation space.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Disparity in the superior–inferior (S–I) position is the most susceptible factor for level misidentification in spine registration.
“disparity in the S–I position is believed to be the most susceptible for level misidentification (e.g. registration errors resulting in label positions away from the true level by one or more levels in the S–I direction).”
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The clinical need is to identify the correct vertebral level within approximately 30 mm PDE.
“Given the clinical need to identify the correct vertebral level within approximately 30 mm PDE (i.e. within the correct vertebral body)”
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§ 3D–2D image registration for target localization in spine surgery: investigation of similarity metrics providing robustness to content mismatch > 2. Methods and materials > 2.2. Image pre-processing and target definition
“minor axis 50 mm”
§ 3D–2D image registration for target localization in spine surgery: investigation of similarity metrics providing robustness to content mismatch > 2. Methods and materials > 2.2. Image pre-processing and target definition
“major axis 25 mm”
Citations
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Distinctive Image Features from Scale-Invariant Keypoints
Lowe, D. G. (2004) · International Journal of Computer Vision · doi:10.1023/b:visi.0000029664.99615.94 · Cited by 55,589 · cited 1×
“…(GO): While all of the above metrics rely upon gradient magnitudes, gradient orientation on its own has been widely used for feature matching (Lowe 2004), object detection (Dalal and Triggs 2005), and image registration (De Nigris et al 2012), and shown promise in robust matching under…”
BackgroundHistograms of Oriented Gradients for Human Detection
Dalal, N., & Triggs, B. (2005) · 2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'05) · doi:10.1109/cvpr.2005.177 · Cited by 33,584 · cited 2×
“Gradient orientation (GO): While all of the above metrics rely upon gradient magnitudes, gradient orientation on its own has been widely used for feature matching (Lowe 2004), object detection (Dalal and Triggs 2005), and image registration (De Nigris et al 2012), and shown promise in robust matching under partial occ…”
BackgroundMethodThe CMA Evolution Strategy: A Comparing Review
Hansen, N. (2007) · Studies in fuzziness and soft computing · doi:10.1007/3-540-32494-1_4 · Cited by 1,907 · cited 1×
“To achieve robust performance under these conditions, the registration process incorporates a multistart optimization with the covariance matrix adaptation; evolution strategy (CMA-ES) reported by (Hansen 2006).”
MethodA comparison of similarity measures for use in 2-D-3-D medical image registration
Penney, G. P., Weese, J., Little, J. A., Desmedt, P., Hill, D. L. G., & hawkes, D. J. (1998) · IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging · doi:10.1109/42.730403 · Cited by 782
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Towards a New Evolutionary Computation
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Automated model-based vertebra detection, identification, and segmentation in CT images
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“Labeling in CT can potentially be done automatically (Klinder et al 2009, Ma and Lu 2013), but in this study, a boardcertified neuroradiologist annotated the vertebral labels at the approximate centroid of each vertebral body.”
Comparative anatomical dimensions of the complete human and porcine spine
Busscher, I., Ploegmakers, J. J. W., Verkerke, G. J., & Veldhuizen, A. G. (2010) · European Spine Journal · doi:10.1007/s00586-010-1326-9 · Cited by 295
The Prevalence of Wrong Level Surgery Among Spine Surgeons
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“This could potentially decrease wrong-level errors, reported to occur in approximately 1 in 3110 spine surgery procedures (Mody et al 2008), and reduce the time and stress associated with resolving anatomical uncertainty.”
BackgroundIntensity-based 2-D-3-D registration of cerebral angiograms
Hipwell, J. H., Penney, G., McLaughlin, R. A., Rhode, K., Summers, P. E., Cox, T. C. S., Byrne, J. V., Noble, J. A., & Hawkes, D. J. (2003) · IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging · doi:10.1109/tmi.2003.819283 · Cited by 146 · cited 2×
“…Metrics Validation Penney et al (1998) CT to projection x-ray in spine surgery NCC, entropy, MI, GC, PI, GD Phantom + simulated clinical images Hipwell et al (2003) Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) to digital subtraction angiography (DSA) in neurointerventions NCC, GC, entropy, MI, PI, GD…”
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Deep learning in medical image registration: a survey
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“They were able to significantly outperform registration approaches that used a state-of-the-art similarity metric given by [24].”
Deep learning in medical image registration: a review
Fu, Y., Lei, Y., Wang, T., Curran, W. J., Liu, T., & Yang, X. (2020) · Physics in Medicine & Biology · doi:10.1088/1361-6560/ab843e · Cited by 661
Dilated FCN for Multi-Agent 2D/3D Medical Image Registration
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Colonoscopy 3D video dataset with paired depth from 2D-3D registration
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“Depth-based registrations were optimized using L 1 , L 2 , Normalized Cross Correlation (NCC), and Gradient Correlation (GC) loss functions (De Silva et al., 2016).”
MethodMultiview 2D/3D Rigid Registration via a Point-Of-Interest Network for Tracking and Triangulation
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Metadata
- Authors
- De Silva, T., Uneri, A., Ketcha, M. D., Reaungamornrat, S., Kleinszig, G., Vogt, S., Aygun, N., Lo, S.-F., Wolinsky, J.-P., & Siewerdsen, J. H.
- Affiliations
- Johns Hopkins University
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Siemens (Germany) (DE)
- Johns Hopkins Medical Institute
- Corresponding author
- Siewerdsen, J H
- Venue
- Physics in Medicine & Biology
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing
- Published
- 2016-03-18
- Volume
- 61
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 3009-3025
- ISSN
- 0031-9155 (ISSN-L)
- 1361-6560
- PMC
- PMC4915376
- OpenAlex
- W2329673985
- Semantic Scholar
- b79816585c14219cea6401f1f6b70af222d8b96a
- Cited by
- 107
- References
- 27
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 2
- FWCI
- 5.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- Locations
- Physics in Medicine and Biology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (R01-EB-017226)
- Siemens Healthcare
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Medical Imaging and Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Medical Image Segmentation Techniques
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Surgery › Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques
- Keywords
- image-guided spine surgery, image similarity measures, gradient direction, gradient correlation, gradient information, preoperative CT, multi-start optimization, surgical instrumentation, soft tissue deformation
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Retrospective Studies, Spinal Diseases, Tomography, X-Ray Computed, Imaging, Three-Dimensional, Surgery, Computer-Assisted
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