Registration strategies for multi-modal whole-body MRI mosaicing.

Ceranka, Jakub;Polfliet, Mathias;Lecouvet, Frédéric;Michoux, Nicolas;Vandemeulebroucke, Jef;et.al.
(2018) Magnetic Resonance in Medicine — Vol. 79, n° 3, p. 1684-1695 (2018)

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PURPOSE: To test and compare different registration approaches for performing whole-body diffusion-weighted (wbDWI) image station mosaicing, and its alignment to corresponding anatomical T1 whole-body image. METHODS: Four different registration strategies aiming at mosaicing of diffusion-weighted image stations, and their alignment to the corresponding whole-body anatomical image, were proposed and evaluated. These included two-step approaches, where diffusion-weighted stations are first combined in a pairwise (Strategy 1) or groupwise (Strategy 2) manner and later non-rigidly aligned to the anatomical image; a direct pairwise mapping of DWI stations onto the anatomical image (Strategy 3); and simultaneous mosaicing of DWI and alignment to the anatomical image (Strategy 4). Additionally, different images driving the registration were investigated. Experiments were performed for 20 whole-body images of patients with bone metastases. RESULTS: Strategies 1 and 2 showed significant improvement in mosaicing accuracy with respect to the non-registered images (P < 0.006). Strategy 2 based on ADC images increased the alignment accuracy between DWI stations and the T1 whole-body image (P = 0.0009). CONCLUSIONS: A two-step registration strategy, relying on groupwise mosaicing of the ADC stations and subsequent registration to T1 , provided the best compromise between whole-body DWI image quality and multi-modal alignment. Magn Reson Med, 2017. © 2017 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
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Ceranka, J., Polfliet, M., Lecouvet, F., Michoux, N., de Mey, J., & Vandemeulebroucke, J. (2018). Registration strategies for multi-modal whole-body MRI mosaicing. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 79(3), 1684-1695. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.26787 (Original work published 2018)