XIOSIS: An X-Ray-Based Intra-Operative Image-Guided Platform for Oncology Smart Material Delivery

• Published in: IEEE transactions on medical imaging 2024-09, Vol.43 (9), p.3176-3187
• Main Authors: Hooshangnejad, Hamed, China, Debarghya, Huang, Yixuan, Zbijewski, Wojciech, Uneri, Ali, McNutt, Todd, Lee, Junghoon, Ding, Kai
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: cancer therapy; Computed tomography; CT synthesis; Deep Learning; generative AI; Humans; Hydrogels; Image reconstruction; Image-guided intervention; Imaging, Three-Dimensional - methods; Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging; Neoplasms - surgery; Oncology; smart material delivery; Smart materials; Surgery, Computer-Assisted - methods; Three-dimensional displays; Tomography, X-Ray Computed - methods; tomosynthesis; X-ray imaging
• ISSN: 0278-0062; 1558-254X; 1558-254X
• DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2024.3387830

Image-guided interventional oncology procedures can greatly enhance the outcome of cancer treatment. As an enhancing procedure, oncology smart material delivery can increase cancer therapy's quality, effectiveness, and safety. However, the effectiveness of enhancing procedures highly depends on the accuracy of smart material placement procedures. Inaccurate placement of smart materials can lead to adverse side effects and health hazards. Image guidance can considerably improve the safety and robustness of smart material delivery. In this study, we developed a novel generative deep-learning platform that highly prioritizes clinical practicality and provides the most informative intra-operative feedback for image-guided smart material delivery. XIOSIS generates a patient-specific 3D volumetric computed tomography (CT) from three intraoperative radiographs (X-ray images) acquired by a mobile C-arm during the operation. As the first of its kind, XIOSIS (i) synthesizes the CT from small field-of-view radiographs;(ii) reconstructs the intra-operative spacer distribution; (iii) is robust; and (iv) is equipped with a novel soft-contrast cost function. To demonstrate the effectiveness of XIOSIS in providing intra-operative image guidance, we applied XIOSIS to the duodenal hydrogel spacer placement procedure. We evaluated XIOSIS performance in an image-guided virtual spacer placement and actual spacer placement in two cadaver specimens. XIOSIS showed a clinically acceptable performance, reconstructed the 3D intra-operative hydrogel spacer distribution with an average structural similarity of 0.88 and Dice coefficient of 0.63 and with less than 1 cm difference in spacer location relative to the spinal cord.