Summary


Purpose: Expert selected landmark points on clinical image pairs provide a basis for rigid registration validation. Using combinatorial rigid registration optimization (CORRO) we provide a statistically characterized reference data set for image registration of the pelvis by estimating the optimal ground truth.

Methods: Landmark points for each CT/CBCT image pair for 58 pelvic cases were identified. From the identified landmark pairs, combination subsets of k-number of landmark pairs were generated without repeat, to form a k-set for k=4, 8, &12. An affine registration between the image pairs was calculated for each k-combination set (2,000-8,000,000). The mean and the standard deviation of the registration were used as the final registration for each image pair. Joint entropy was employed to measure and compare the quality of CORRO to commercially available software.

Results: An average of 154 (range: 91-212) landmark pairs were selected for each CT/CBCT image pair. The mean standard deviation of the registration output decreased as the k-size increased for all cases.  In general the joint entropy evaluated was found to be lower than results from commercially available software. Of all 58 cases 58.3% of the k=4, 15% of k=8 and 18.3% of k=12 resulted in the better registration using CORRO as compared to 8.3% from a commercial registration software. The minimum joint entropy was determined for one case and found to exist at the estimated registration mean in agreement with the CORRO approach.

Conclusion: The results demonstrate that CORRO works even in the extreme case of the pelvic anatomy where the CBCT suffers from reduced quality due to increased noise levels. The estimated ground truth using CORRO was found to be better than commercially available software for all k-sets tested. Additionally, the k-set of 4 resulted in overall best outcomes when compared to k=8 and 12, which is anticipated because k=8 and 12 are more likely to have combinations that affected the accuracy of the registration.

Figure 1. Content of planning CT shifted to the machine isocenter. Top left to right - axial, coronal and sagittal planning CT image with machine isocenter in red and image isocenter in blue. Middle left to right - axial, coronal and sagittal planning CT at machine isocenter. Bottom left to right - axial, coronal and sagittal CBCT at machine isocenter.

Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge the individuals and institutions that have provided data for this collection:

  • Beaumont Health : Afua Yorke, Gary McDonald, David Solis, Thomas Guerrero.  We thank Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak MI, for their support. And thanks to Charles K. Yorke, Ph.D., and Brad J. Roth Ph.D.


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Images (DICOM, 7 GB)

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Transformation Matrices to Isocenter (registration) (XLSX, 11 kB)
Landmark Coordinates (Zipped XLSX, 644 kB)

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Detailed Description

Image Statistics


Modalities

CT

Number of Patients

58

Number of Studies

116

Number of Series

116

Number of Images

13,644

Images Size (GB)7

Please note: additional data to bring each patID scan into registration, and to co-locate the landmarks, is contained in the two sets of Excel sheets below

Transformation Matrices to Isocenter (registration) (XLSX)
Landmark Coordinates (Zipped XLSX)

Citations & Data Usage Policy

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Data Citation

Yorke, A. A., McDonald, G. C., Solis, D., & Guerrero, T. (2019). Pelvic Reference Data (Version 1) [Data set]. The Cancer Imaging Archive. https://doi.org/10.7937/TCIA.2019.WOSKQ5OO

Publication Citation

A. Yorke, A., McDonald, G. C., Solis, D., & Guerrero, T.  (2021) Quality Assurance of Image Registration Using Combinatorial Rigid Registration Optimization (CORRO). J. Cancer Research and Cellular Therapeutics. 5(2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.31579/2640-1053/076

 

TCIA Citation

Clark, K., Vendt, B., Smith, K., Freymann, J., Kirby, J., Koppel, P., Moore, S., Phillips, S., Maffitt, D., Pringle, M., Tarbox, L., & Prior, F. (2013). The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA): Maintaining and Operating a Public Information Repository. In Journal of Digital Imaging (Vol. 26, Issue 6, pp. 1045–1057). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-013-9622-7

Additional Publication Resources:

The Collection authors suggest the below will give context to this dataset:

  • Yorke, A, Solis, D., Jr. and Guerrero, T. (2020), A feasibility study to estimate optimal rigid‐body registration using combinatorial rigid registration optimization (CORRO). J. Appl. Clin. Med. Phys., 21: 14-22. https://doi.org/10.1002/acm2.12965

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Version 1 (Current): Updated 2019/09/13

Data TypeDownload all or Query/Filter
Images (DICOM, 7 GB)

   

(Download requires the NBIA Data Retriever)

Transformation Matrices to Isocenter (registration) (XLSX)
Landmark Coordinates (Zipped XLSX)

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