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Needle tracking in low-resolution ultrasound volumes using deep learning
Citation Link: https://doi.org/10.15480/882.13574
Publikationstyp
Journal Article
Date Issued
2024-07-13
Sprache
English
Author(s)
TORE-DOI
Volume
19
Issue
10
Start Page
1975
End Page
1981
Citation
International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 19 (10): 1975-1981 (2024)
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Scopus ID
Publisher
Springer
Purpose: Clinical needle insertion into tissue, commonly assisted by 2D ultrasound imaging for real-time navigation, faces the challenge of precise needle and probe alignment to reduce out-of-plane movement. Recent studies investigate 3D ultrasound imaging together with deep learning to overcome this problem, focusing on acquiring high-resolution images to create optimal conditions for needle tip detection. However, high-resolution also requires a lot of time for image acquisition and processing, which limits the real-time capability. Therefore, we aim to maximize the US volume rate with the trade-off of low image resolution. We propose a deep learning approach to directly extract the 3D needle tip position from sparsely sampled US volumes. Methods: We design an experimental setup with a robot inserting a needle into water and chicken liver tissue. In contrast to manual annotation, we assess the needle tip position from the known robot pose. During insertion, we acquire a large data set of low-resolution volumes using a 16 × 16 element matrix transducer with a volume rate of 4 Hz. We compare the performance of our deep learning approach with conventional needle segmentation. Results: Our experiments in water and liver show that deep learning outperforms the conventional approach while achieving sub-millimeter accuracy. We achieve mean position errors of 0.54 mm in water and 1.54 mm in liver for deep learning. Conclusion: Our study underlines the strengths of deep learning to predict the 3D needle positions from low-resolution ultrasound volumes. This is an important milestone for real-time needle navigation, simplifying the alignment of needle and ultrasound probe and enabling a 3D motion analysis.
Subjects
Deep learning
Needle tip detection
Real-time
Sparse feature learning
Volumetric ultrasound imaging
MLE@TUHH
DDC Class
617: Surgery, Regional Medicine, Dentistry, Ophthalmology, Otology, Audiology
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