Thoracic CT-MRI coregistration for regional pulmonary structure-function measurements of obstructive lung disease
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-11-2017
Journal
Medical Physics
Volume
44
Issue
5
First Page
1718
Last Page
1733
URL with Digital Object Identifier
https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.12160
Abstract
PURPOSE: Recent pulmonary imaging research has revealed that in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma, structural and functional abnormalities are spatially heterogeneous. This novel information may help optimize treatment in individual patients, monitor interventional efficacy, and develop new treatments. Moreover, by automating the measurement of regional biomarkers for the 19 different anatomical lung segments, there is an opportunity to embed imaging biomarkers into clinically acceptable clinical workflows and improve lung disease clinical care. Therefore, to exploit the regional structure-function information provided by thoracic imaging, and as a first step toward this goal, our objective was to develop a fully automated registration pipeline for thoracic x-ray computed tomography (CT) and inhaled gas functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) whole lung and segmental structure-function biomarkers.
METHODS: Thirty-five patients including 15 severe, poorly controlled asthmatics and 20 COPD patients [classified according to the global initiative for chronic obstructive lung disease (GOLD) criteria)] provided written informed consent to a study protocol approved by Health Canada and underwent pulmonary function tests, MRI, and CT during a single 2-hour visit. Using this diverse patient dataset, we developed and evaluated a joint deformable registration approach to simultaneously coregister CT with both
RESULTS: In 35 patients including 15 with severe asthma and 20 with COPD, mean forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV
CONCLUSIONS: For a diverse group of patients with COPD and asthma, whole lung and segmental VDP was measured using an automated lung image analysis pipeline which provides a way to incorporate lung functional biomarkers into clinical research and patient care.
Notes
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: F Guo, S Svenningsen, M Kirby, DPI Capaldi, K Sheikh, A Fenster & G Parraga (2017). Thoracic CT-MRI coregistration for regional pulmonary structure-function measurements of obstructive lung disease. Medical Physics 44(5), 1718-1733, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.12160. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.