A data-driven approach for real-time soft tissue deformation prediction using nonlinear presurgical simulations

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:PLoS One vol. 20, no. 4 (Apr 2025), p. e0319196
Main Author: Liu, Haolin
Other Authors: Han, Ye, Emerson, Daniel, Rabin, Yoed, Kara, Levent Burak
Published:
Public Library of Science
Subjects:
Online Access:Citation/Abstract
Full Text
Full Text - PDF
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

MARC

LEADER 00000nab a2200000uu 4500
001 3190189102
003 UK-CbPIL
022 |a 1932-6203 
024 7 |a 10.1371/journal.pone.0319196  |2 doi 
035 |a 3190189102 
045 2 |b d20250401  |b d20250430 
084 |a 174835  |2 nlm 
100 1 |a Liu, Haolin 
245 1 |a A data-driven approach for real-time soft tissue deformation prediction using nonlinear presurgical simulations 
260 |b Public Library of Science  |c Apr 2025 
513 |a Journal Article 
520 3 |a A method that allows a fast and accurate registration of digital tissue models obtained during preoperative, diagnostic imaging with those captured intraoperatively using lower-fidelity ultrasound imaging techniques is presented. Minimally invasive surgeries are often planned using preoperative, high-fidelity medical imaging techniques such as MRI and CT imaging. While these techniques allow clinicians to obtain detailed 3D models of the surgical region of interest (ROI), various factors such as physical changes to the tissue, changes in the body’s configuration, or apparatus used during the surgery may cause large, non-linear deformations of the ROI. Such deformations of the tissue can result in a severe mismatch between the preoperatively obtained 3D model and the real-time image data acquired during surgery, potentially compromising surgical success. To overcome this challenge, this work presents a new approach for predicting intraoperative soft tissue deformations. The approach works by simply tracking the displacements of a handful of fiducial markers or analogous biological features embedded in the tissue, and produces a 3D deformed version of the high-fidelity ROI model that registers accurately with the intraoperative data. In an offline setting, we use the finite element method to generate deformation fields given various boundary conditions that mimic the realistic environment of soft tissues during a surgery. To reduce the dimensionality of the 3D deformation field involving thousands of degrees of freedom, we use an autoencoder neural network to encode each computed deformation field into a short latent space representation, such that a neural network can accurately map the fiducial marker displacements to the latent space. Our computational tests on a head and neck tumor, a kidney, and an aorta model show prediction errors as small as 0.5 mm. Considering that the typical resolution of interventional ultrasound is around 1 mm and each prediction takes less than 0.5 s, the proposed approach has the potential to be clinically relevant for an accurate tracking of soft tissue deformations during image-guided surgeries. 
653 |a Digital imaging 
653 |a Finite element method 
653 |a Imaging techniques 
653 |a Software 
653 |a Accuracy 
653 |a Aorta 
653 |a Datasets 
653 |a Data acquisition 
653 |a Boundary conditions 
653 |a Medical imaging 
653 |a Neural networks 
653 |a Image processing 
653 |a Registration 
653 |a Tracking 
653 |a Surgery 
653 |a Machine learning 
653 |a Simulation 
653 |a Soft tissues 
653 |a Predictions 
653 |a Tissues 
653 |a Aneurysms 
653 |a Computed tomography 
653 |a Coronary vessels 
653 |a Biomarkers 
653 |a Three dimensional models 
653 |a Ultrasound 
653 |a Image acquisition 
653 |a Real time 
653 |a Geometry 
653 |a Ultrasonic imaging 
653 |a Environmental 
700 1 |a Han, Ye 
700 1 |a Emerson, Daniel 
700 1 |a Rabin, Yoed 
700 1 |a Kara, Levent Burak 
773 0 |t PLoS One  |g vol. 20, no. 4 (Apr 2025), p. e0319196 
786 0 |d ProQuest  |t Health & Medical Collection 
856 4 1 |3 Citation/Abstract  |u https://www.proquest.com/docview/3190189102/abstract/embedded/6A8EOT78XXH2IG52?source=fedsrch 
856 4 0 |3 Full Text  |u https://www.proquest.com/docview/3190189102/fulltext/embedded/6A8EOT78XXH2IG52?source=fedsrch 
856 4 0 |3 Full Text - PDF  |u https://www.proquest.com/docview/3190189102/fulltextPDF/embedded/6A8EOT78XXH2IG52?source=fedsrch