2D-3D deformable image registration of histology slide and micro-CT with DISA-based initialization.

Authors

Chen J,Ronchetti M,Stehl V,Nguyen V,Kallaa MA,Gedara MT,Lölkes C,Moser S,Seidl M,Wieczorek M

Affiliations (5)

  • ImFusion GmbH, Agnes-Pockels-Bogen 1, Munich, 80992, Germany. [email protected].
  • Department of Physics, Technical University of Munich, James-Franck-Str. 1, Garching, 85748, Germany. [email protected].
  • ImFusion GmbH, Agnes-Pockels-Bogen 1, Munich, 80992, Germany.
  • Institute of Pathology, Heinrich Heine University and University Hospital of Düsseldorf, Mooren Str. 5, Düsseldorf, 40225, Germany.
  • Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, Ernst Zermelo Str. 4, Freiburg, 79104, Germany.

Abstract

Recent developments in the registration of histology and micro-computed tomography (µCT) have broadened the perspective of pathological applications such as virtual histology based on µCT. This topic remains challenging because of the low image quality of soft tissue CT. Additionally, soft tissue samples usually deform during the histology slide preparation, making it difficult to correlate the structures between the histology slide and µCT. In this work, we propose a novel 2D-3D multi-modal deformable image registration method. The method utilizes an initial global 2D-3D registration using an ML-based differentiable similarity measure. The registration is then finalized by an analytical out-of-plane deformation refinement. The method is evaluated on datasets acquired from tonsil and tumor tissues. µCTs of both phase-contrast and conventional absorption modalities are investigated. The registration results from the proposed method are compared with those from intensity- and keypoint-based methods. The comparison is conducted using both visual and fiducial-based evaluations. The proposed method demonstrates superior performance compared to the other two methods.

Topics

X-Ray MicrotomographyImaging, Three-DimensionalImage Processing, Computer-AssistedJournal Article

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