[ACM Press the 3rd International Conference - Suwon, Korea (2009.01.15-2009.01.16)] Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication - ICUIMC '09 - A multimodality image registration framework for synchronous visualization of radiotherapy plans with longitudinal imaging studies

✍ Scribed by Wang, Chang-Yu; Lee, Tsair-Fwu; Fang, Chun-Hsiung

• Book ID: 120974346
• Publisher: ACM Press
• Year: 2009
• Weight: 205 KB
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 1605584053
• DOI: 10.1145/1516241.1516313

✦ Synopsis

The introduction of adaptive image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) in the radiotherapy environment has contributed to the rapid accumulation of medical image data, often making it difficult to consolidate information on a single patient. For oncology patients, the lack of data integration can negatively impact on patient care. We propose a multimodality image registration framework (MIRF) for radiotherapy plans to be registered automatically with longitudinal follow-up images. Volume visualization is proved to display changes in serial medical images, and transformed dose distribution and mesh models of radiotherapy targets can be superimposed on these successive images.