Longitudinal registration of T

MRI is commonly used to aid breast cancer diagnosis and treatment evaluation. For patients with breast cancer, neoadjuvant chemotherapy aims to reduce the tumor size and extent of surgery necessary. The current clinical standard to measure breast tumor response on MRI uses the longest tumor diameter. Radiologists also account for other tissue properties including tumor contrast/pharmacokinetics in their assessment. Accurate longitudinal image registration of breast tissue is critical to properly compare response to treatment at different timepoints. In this study, a deformable Fast Longitudinal Image Registration (FLIRE) algorithm was optimized for breast tissue. FLIRE was then compared to the publicly available software packages with high accuracy (DRAMMS) and fast runtime (Elastix). Patients included in the study received longitudinal T Alignment and runtime performance were compared using two-way repeated measure ANOVAs (P < 0.0 5). Across all patients, Pearson's correlation coefficient across the entire image volume was slightly higher with statistical significance and had less variance for FLIRE (0.98 ± 0.01 stdev) compared to DRAMMS (0.97 ± 0.03 stdev) and Elastix (0.9 5 ± 0.03 stdev). Additionally, FLIRE runtime (10.0 mins) was 9.0 times faster than DRAMMS (89.6 mins) and 1.5 times faster than Elastix (14.5 mins) on a Linux workstation. FLIRE demonstrates promise for time-sensitive clinical applications due to its accuracy, robustness across patients and timepoints, and speed.

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