Fast 3D YOLOv3 based standard plane regression of vertebral bodies in intra-operative CBCT volumes
Open Access
- 1 May 2023
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng in Journal of Medical Imaging
- Vol. 10 (03), 034503
- https://doi.org/10.1117/1.jmi.10.3.034503
Abstract
PurposeMobile C-arm systems represent the standard imaging devices within the field of spine surgery. In addition to 2D imaging, they allow for 3D scans while preserving unrestricted patient access. For viewing, the acquired volumes are adjusted such that their anatomical standard planes align with the axes of the viewing modality. This difficult and time-consuming step is currently performed manually by the leading surgeon. This process is automatized within this work to improve the usability of C-arm systems. Thereby, the spinal region consisting of multiple vertebrae and the standard planes of all vertebrae being of interest to the surgeon need to be taken into account.ApproachAn object detection algorithm based on the you only look once version 3 architecture, adapted to 3D inputs, is compared with a segmentation-based approach employing a 3D U-Net. Both algorithms are trained on a dataset of 440 and tested on 218 spinal volumes.ResultsAlthough the detection-based algorithm is slightly inferior concerning the detection (91% versus 97% accuracy), localization (1.26 mm versus 0.74 mm error) and alignment accuracy (5.00 deg versus 4.73 deg error), it outperforms the segmentation-based one in terms of speed (5 s versus 38 s).ConclusionsBoth algorithms show similar good results. However, the speed gain of the detection-based algorithm, resulting in a run time of 5 s, makes it more suitable for usage in an intra-operative scenario.Keywords
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