Detailed Description
For the purpose of making the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention more apparent, the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is apparent that the described embodiments are some embodiments of the present invention, but not all embodiments of the present invention. Embodiments of the present invention are intended to be within the scope of the present invention as defined by the appended claims.
In order to overcome the problems in the prior art, the embodiment of the invention provides an evaluation method of the treatment effect of an ablation operation, which has the advantages that the shrinkage center point of the tumor is predicted by analyzing the shrinkage condition of the tumor actually occurring in the operation, the tumor area in a preoperative image is mapped onto a postoperative image according to the shrinkage center point of the tumor, and the actual change of the heated shrinkage of the tumor is considered in the mapping process, so that the wrapping condition of the ablation area on the tumor area can be reflected more accurately, and the evaluation result of the treatment effect of the ablation operation is obtained more accurately.
Fig. 1 is a flow chart of a method for evaluating the therapeutic effect of an ablation procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 1, a method for evaluating the effect of ablation therapy includes: step S101, respectively preprocessing a tumor region in a preoperative image and an ablation region in a postoperative image, so that the gray distribution of the tumor region in the preprocessed preoperative image is the same as the gray distribution of the organ tissue region around the tumor region, and the gray distribution of the ablation region in the preprocessed postoperative image is the same as the gray distribution of the organ tissue region around the ablation region.
It should be noted that, the method for evaluating the therapeutic effect of the ablation procedure provided by the embodiment of the invention is suitable for evaluating the postoperative therapeutic effect of the ablation procedure on tumors of various pathological organs such as liver, stomach, lung, pancreas, thyroid, breast, intestinal tract and the like, and is not used for implementing the ablation procedure and diagnosing and treating patients after the ablation procedure.
It will be appreciated that pre-operative and post-operative images of the patient are acquired prior to evaluation of the effectiveness of the ablation procedure. The preoperative image includes a tumor region; the post-operative image includes an ablation region. The tumor region is present only in the pre-operative image and not in the post-operative image, while the ablation region is present only in the post-operative image and not in the pre-operative image.
The tumor region refers to the region occupied by the tumor in the image.
After the ablation operation, three layers are formed in sequence from inside to outside: carbonized regions, coagulated regions, and non-ablated regions. The carbonization zone and the coagulation zone are both contracted, and thus the ablation zone includes the carbonization zone and the coagulation zone.
It should be noted that, because the gray level distribution of the tumor area and the ablation area is similar and is obviously different from that of the normal organ tissue area, the edges of the tumor area and the ablation area tend to be aligned in the subsequent image registration process, and mismatching is generated, so that the elastic deformation field around the tumor is influenced, and the finally predicted shrinkage condition of the tumor is inaccurate.
Therefore, in order to avoid mismatching of the tumor region and the ablation region in registration, the pre-operation image and the post-operation image can be preprocessed by using an image restoration technology, specifically, the tumor region in the pre-operation image and the ablation region in the post-operation image are preprocessed respectively, so that the gray distribution of the tumor region in the pre-operation image after preprocessing is the same as the gray distribution of the organ tissue region around the tumor region, the gray distribution of the ablation region in the post-operation image after preprocessing is the same as the gray distribution of the organ tissue region around the ablation region, and therefore, the edge alignment of the tumor region and the ablation region in the subsequent image registration process and the inaccuracy of the predicted tumor shrinkage condition are avoided.
The gray distribution of the tumor area in the pre-processed preoperative image is the same as the gray distribution of the organ tissue area around the tumor area, which means that the gray distribution of the tumor area in the pre-processed preoperative image and the gray distribution of the organ tissue area around the tumor area have the same probability distribution function, but the parameters of the probability distribution function are different.
The gray distribution of the ablation region in the preprocessed postoperative image is the same as the gray distribution of the organ tissue region around the ablation region, which means that the gray distribution of the ablation region in the preprocessed postoperative image has the probability distribution function with the same form as the gray distribution of the organ tissue region around the ablation region, but the parameters of the probability distribution function are different.
Step S102, performing image registration on a tumor region in a preprocessed preoperative image and an ablation region in a preprocessed postoperative image to obtain an elastic deformation field, and performing vector field analysis on the elastic deformation field to determine a tumor contraction center point; wherein the elastic deformation field is used to describe the shrinkage of the tumor.
It should be noted that, when the microblog ablation operation is performed, the tumor drives the surrounding organ tissues, such as blood vessels, to shrink inwards in the process of thermal shrinkage, so that the actual shrinkage process of the tumor can be deduced according to the elastic deformation of the surrounding organ tissues, and the elastic deformation can be represented by the elastic deformation field of the surrounding organ tissues. The elastic deformation field of the organ tissue surrounding the tumor can be considered to be the same as the elastic deformation field of the tumor.
Specifically, after preprocessing the preoperative image and the postoperative image, the tumor region in the preprocessed preoperative image and the ablation region in the preprocessed postoperative image are registered according to an image registration method, so that estimation of the internal motion of a lesion organ can be realized, and an elastic deformation field for describing the shrinkage of tumors is obtained.
The elastic deformation field reflects the elastic deformation of the organ tissue around the tumor containing the internal motion information of the diseased organ. Since the surrounding organ tissue is located around the tumor, the elastic deformation of the surrounding organ tissue can also reflect the shrinkage of the tumor.
The elastic deformation field reflects the elastic movement of the inside of the lesion organ, and can be used for analyzing the shrinkage condition of the tumor because the elastic deformation field contains movement information of the tissue of the organ around the tumor. Because the tumor can drive surrounding tissues to shrink when being heated, the elastic deformation field can point to one or more points in the tumor together, and the points which point together are the shrinkage center point of the tumor. Therefore, by searching the center point of tumor contraction, the contraction movement of the tumor can be analyzed, and the contraction condition of the tumor can be further expressed.
Since the elastic deformation field is a vector field, a vector field analysis can be performed on the elastic deformation field to determine the tumor contraction center point. The elastic deformation field is subjected to a vector field analysis, and a suitable method can be selected from the existing vector field analysis methods.
Step S103, according to the tumor contraction center point, mapping the tumor area in the preprocessed preoperative image onto the preprocessed postoperative image after image registration, and according to the tumor area mapped onto the preprocessed postoperative image after image registration and the ablation area in the preprocessed postoperative image after image registration, obtaining an evaluation result of the ablation operation treatment effect.
The microwave ablation operation is performed by inserting an ablation needle into a tumor, generating microwaves through the ablation needle, and generating heat through the intense movement friction of water molecules in a microwave oscillation electric field to cause coagulation necrosis of tumor cells. Thus, the center point of contraction of the tumor can be considered to be the location of the intraoperative ablation needle. Depending on the actual situation, the ablation needle may be one or more, as the center point of contraction of the tumor obtained is one or more.
After obtaining the tumor shrinkage center point through step S102, taking the tumor shrinkage center point obtained through step S102 as the position of the ablation needle, so that the shrinkage condition of the tumor can be predicted according to the position of the ablation needle and any existing tumor shrinkage model, the tumor area in the pre-operation image after pretreatment is combined with the shrinkage condition of the tumor obtained by prediction and mapped onto the post-operation image after pretreatment, thereby obtaining the ablation area in the post-operation image after pretreatment after image registration, the wrapping condition of the tumor area mapped onto the post-operation image after pretreatment after image registration, and evaluating the treatment effect of the ablation operation according to the wrapping condition, thereby obtaining the evaluation result of the treatment effect of the ablation operation.
According to the embodiment of the invention, after the pre-operation image and the post-operation image are preprocessed, the preprocessed pre-operation image and the preprocessed post-operation image are subjected to image registration, an elastic deformation field is obtained, vector field analysis is carried out on the elastic deformation field, a tumor contraction center point is determined, a tumor area is mapped onto the post-operation image according to the tumor contraction center point, an evaluation result of the ablation treatment effect is obtained, the contraction of the tumor in operation can be accurately reflected, and thus a more accurate evaluation result of the ablation treatment effect can be obtained.
Based on the above embodiments, the specific steps of preprocessing the tumor region in the preoperative image include: for each pixel in the tumor region in the pre-operative image, the gray scale of the pixel is replaced with a weighted sum of the gray scales of the pixels in the neighborhood of the pixel.
Specifically, the gray scale of each pixel in the tumor area in the preoperative image is replaced by the weighted sum of the gray scales of each pixel in the neighborhood of the pixel, so as to realize the pretreatment of the tumor area in the preoperative image.
The neighborhood of each pixel may be, but not limited to, 4 neighborhood or 8 neighborhood.
The specific formula for preprocessing the tumor area in the preoperative image is as follows:
Wherein Ω 1 Representing a tumor region; x is tumor region Ω 1 Pixels in (a); i (x) represents the gray scale of the pixel x after pretreatment; neighborhood omega 0 Representing a neighborhood of pixel x; y represents the neighborhood Ω of pixel x 0 Pixels in (a); i (y) represents the gradation of the pixel y; w represents a weight; alpha 0 And the preset normal number is used for representing the adjustment coefficient.
For alpha 0 Lower values can reduce noise and higher values can preserve image detail.
According to the embodiment of the invention, the gray scale of each pixel in the tumor area is replaced by the weighted sum of the gray scales of each pixel in the neighborhood of the pixel, and the error matching of the tumor area and the ablation area in the registration can be avoided, so that more accurate tumor shrinkage conditions can be obtained, and more accurate evaluation results of the treatment effect of the ablation operation can be obtained.
Based on the above embodiments, the specific steps of preprocessing the ablation region in the post-operation image include: for each pixel in the ablation region in the post-operative image, the gray scale of the pixel is replaced with a weighted sum of the gray scales of the pixels in the neighborhood of the pixel.
Specifically, the gray scale of each pixel in the ablation region in the postoperative image is replaced by the weighted sum of the gray scales of each pixel in the neighborhood of the pixel, so that the pretreatment of the tumor region in the postoperative image is realized.
The neighborhood of each pixel may be, but not limited to, 4 neighborhood or 8 neighborhood.
The method of preprocessing the tumor region in the preoperative image can be adopted to preprocess the ablation region in the postoperative image. The specific formula for preprocessing the ablation area in the postoperative image is as follows:
wherein Ω 2 Representing an ablation zone; x is the ablation zone Ω 2 Pixels in (a); i (x) represents the gray scale of the pixel x after pretreatment; neighborhood omega 0 Representing a neighborhood of pixel x; y represents the neighborhood Ω of pixel x 0 Pixels in (a); i (y) represents the gradation of the pixel y; w represents a weight; alpha 0 And the preset normal number is used for representing the adjustment coefficient.
For alpha 0 Lower values can reduce noise and higher values can preserve image detail. Alpha in specific formulas for pre-and post-operative image preprocessing 0 The same applies.
It will be appreciated that the neighborhood used in pre-processing the tumor region in the pre-operative image may be the same as or different from the neighborhood used in pre-processing the ablation region in the post-operative image. For example, the 8 neighbors may be used, or the 4 neighbors and the 8 neighbors may be used, respectively.
According to the embodiment of the invention, the gray scale of each pixel in the ablation area is replaced by the weighted sum of the gray scales of each pixel in the neighborhood of the pixel, so that the false matching of the tumor area and the ablation area in the registration can be avoided, the more accurate tumor shrinkage condition can be obtained, and the more accurate evaluation result of the ablation operation treatment effect can be obtained.
Based on the above embodiments, the specific steps of performing image registration on a tumor region in a pre-processed preoperative image and an ablation region in a post-processed image to obtain an elastic deformation field include: performing rigid registration on a tumor region in the preprocessed preoperative image and an ablation region in the preprocessed postoperative image so as to maximize mutual information between the preprocessed preoperative image and the preprocessed postoperative image after rigid registration; and according to the differential stratospheric deformation model, elastically registering a tumor region in the preprocessed preoperative image and an ablation region in the preprocessed postoperative image after rigid registration to obtain an elastic deformation field.
Specifically, image registration is performed on a tumor region in a preprocessed preoperative image and an ablation region in a preprocessed postoperative image, and the method comprises the following two steps: rigid registration and elastic registration.
Since the preoperative image and the postoperative image for evaluating the effect of ablation surgery are acquired from different times and places, there is a large-scale pose difference between the images, which cannot be processed only by elastic registration. It is therefore necessary to predict first the rigid deformation between the two images, correcting the large-scale pose difference by rigid registration.
Pose, refers to position and posture.
The gray information of the entire image may be used to direct rigid registration and mutual information (Mutual Information, MI for short) may be used to measure the degree of similarity between the two images. The goal of rigid registration is to find an ideal rigid transformation matrixSo that the pre-processed post-operative image I after rigid transformation R-post And pre-processed preoperative image I pre The mutual information between them reaches a maximum. The post-operative image after pretreatment can be used as I post And (3) representing.
The mutual information may be standardized mutual information (Normalized Mutual Information, abbreviated as NMI), but is not limited thereto.
The method is suitable for the situation that the preoperative image and the postoperative image are obtained through different medical image acquisition methods. For example, when the preoperative image is a CT image and the postoperative image is an MRI image, rigid registration is performed based on mutual information, so that the method is not affected by different image acquisition methods, and a better registration effect is obtained.
Rigid transformation matrixIs an Euler Transform (Euler Transform) matrix. Rigid transformation, consisting of two parts, rotation and translation. Rigid transformation matrix->The expression can be represented by the following formula:
wherein α, β, γ represent rotation angles about x, y, z axes, respectively; t is t x ,t y ,t z The amount of translation along the x, y, z axes are shown, respectively.
After rigid registration, the pre-operative image and the post-operative image are spatially aligned as a whole. However, since the non-rigid motion inside the lesion is required to be analyzed, the elastic registration is further required to obtain corresponding motion information, namely an elastic deformation field
When elastic registration is performed, registration can be performed according to a differential stratoshaped deformation (diffeomorphic demons) model, and an elastic deformation field is obtained. The elastic deformation field obtained by prediction according to the differential stratospheric deformation model has the characteristic of differential stratosphere. The characteristics enable the elastic deformation field to be tiny everywhere, namely the change of the elastic deformation field is continuously led, so that the position of the tumor contraction center point can be deduced on the basis of grasping the movement information of organs and tissues around the tumor.
For example, but not limited to, elastic registration may be performed using a log-domain differential homoembryo deformation (log-domain diffeomorphic demons) model.
Post-operative image I after pretreatment post Through final deformation fieldAfter deformation, with pre-processed preoperative image I pre HeightAlignment.
Wherein the rigid transformation matrixReflecting the rigid deformation of the preoperative and postoperative pose of the patient, and the elastic deformation field +.>Reflecting the elastic deformation of organ tissue containing information of the internal motion of the diseased organ.
According to the embodiment of the invention, through rigid registration based on mutual information and elastic registration based on differential and homoembryo deformation models, the elastic deformation field is obtained, the pose difference of the postoperative image relative to the preoperative image and the elastic deformation of the organ tissues around the tumor can be more accurately separated, and the more accurate elastic deformation field for describing the shrinkage of the tumor can be obtained, so that the more accurate shrinkage condition of the tumor can be obtained, and the more accurate evaluation result of the ablation treatment effect can be obtained. Furthermore, the rigid registration based on mutual information can be suitable for the situation that the preoperative image and the postoperative image are obtained through different medical image acquisition methods, and the application range is wider.
Based on the above embodiments, the specific steps of vector field analysis of the elastic deformation field to determine the tumor contraction center point include: decomposing the elastic deformation field to obtain a non-rotating field and a potential function of the non-rotating field in the elastic deformation field; determining a central point of the reduced propagation in the non-rotating field according to a potential function of the non-rotating field; and acquiring the contraction degree of the central points of the contraction propagation in the non-rotating field, clustering the central points of the contraction propagation in the non-rotating field according to the contraction degree, and determining the central point of the type of contraction propagation with the largest contraction degree as the tumor contraction central point.
Specifically, the elastic deformation field may be subjected to vector field analysis by the following steps to determine the tumor shrinkage center point.
After the elastic deformation field is obtained, the elastic deformation field is decomposed, and the elastic deformation field is decomposed into a non-rotating field, a non-scattering field and a harmonic field.
At the position ofThere are many key points such as source (center point of propagation enlarged, center of an expanding propagation), sink (center point of propagation contracted), rotational center (center point of rotation), etc. Shrinkage of a tumor is reflected in the propagation of shrinkage in the deformation field, so sink can represent the center point of shrinkage of the tumor.
Wherein,representing an elastic deformation field; />Indicating a non-rotating field; />Indicating no stray field; />Representing the reconciliation field.
A non-rotating field comprising only divergence and/or contraction; no stray field, only rotation; and (3) reconciling the fields, and approximating translation.
Since the center point of contraction is required to be obtained, the center point of contraction is obviously only present in the non-rotating field.
In decomposing the elastic deformation field, the potential function D of the non-rotating field can also be obtained.
Wherein G is ∞ Representing free-space green's function; let denote the divergence operator; Ω denotes a pre-processed preoperative image I pre Space.
From the potential function of the non-rotating field, the sink (center point of the narrowing propagation) in the non-rotating field can be determined.
Due toIs complex, resulting in the generation of many sink. sink includes two classes: noise sink and correct sink. Noise sink is caused by noise, and its degree of contraction is small; correct sink is caused by tumor shrinkage, which is to a large extent.
In order to eliminate the influence of noise and obtain a correct tumor contraction center point, after determining the center points of contraction propagation in the non-rotating field, the contraction degree of each center point of contraction propagation is obtained.
The degree of contraction of each sink point can be reflected by the jacobian determinant. The specific expression of the jacobian determinant is:
wherein,respectively indicate->Components in three directions of x, y and z axes.
JAC is 1 indicating that the volume remains unchanged; the smaller the value of JAC, the greater the degree of volume shrinkage.
Substituting the coordinates of each sink point into the specific expression of the Jacobian determinant to obtain the contraction degree of each sink point.
After the contraction degree of each sink point is obtained, clustering is carried out on the contraction degree (JAC value) of the sink point by adopting a clustering algorithm, and the center point of the type of contraction propagation with the largest contraction degree is determined to be the correct sink, namely the tumor contraction center point. And the center point of the propagation is the noise sink in one or more types of shrinkage smaller in shrinkage degree.
The embodiment of the invention does not limit the adopted clustering algorithm in particular.
For example, clustering can be performed using the K-means algorithm, aggregating the center points of the contracted propagation into two classes: the type with larger contraction degree and the type with smaller contraction degree are correct sink, and the type with smaller contraction degree is noise sink.
According to the embodiment of the invention, the central point of the shrinkage propagation in the non-rotating field is determined by decomposing the elastic deformation field, the central points of the shrinkage propagation in the non-rotating field are clustered according to the shrinkage degree, and the central point of the type of shrinkage propagation with the maximum shrinkage degree is determined as the tumor shrinkage central point, so that the interference of noise can be eliminated, the more accurate tumor shrinkage central point can be obtained, and the more accurate evaluation result of the ablation operation treatment effect can be obtained.
Based on the foregoing embodiment, the specific step of determining the center point of the reduced propagation in the non-rotating field according to the potential function of the non-rotating field includes: and acquiring a maximum point of a potential function of the non-rotating field, and determining a point in the non-rotating field corresponding to the maximum point as a central point of the reduced propagation in the non-rotating field.
Specifically, sink is a point in the spin-free field corresponding to the maximum point of the potential function of the spin-free field.
The maximum point of the potential function of the non-rotating field can be determined according to the potential function of the non-rotating field, so that the central point of the narrowing propagation in the non-rotating field can be determined according to the maximum point of the potential function of the non-rotating field.
According to the embodiment of the invention, the point in the non-rotating field corresponding to the maximum value point of the potential function of the non-rotating field is determined as the central point of the reduced propagation in the non-rotating field, and the accurate central point of the reduced propagation can be obtained, so that the more accurate central point of tumor shrinkage and the more accurate evaluation result of the ablation treatment effect can be obtained.
Based on the above embodiments, the specific steps of decomposing the elastic deformation field to obtain the non-rotating field and the potential function of the non-rotating field in the elastic deformation field include: and decomposing the elastic deformation field according to a Huo Jihai MoHotz decomposition algorithm to obtain a non-rotating field and a potential function of the non-rotating field in the elastic deformation field.
Specifically, an elastic deformation field may be decomposed using a Huo Jihai mholtz decomposition (Hodge Helmholtz decomposition, HHD for short) algorithm.
For example, the elastic deformation field may be decomposed using a Natural HHD (Natural Huo Jihai MHotz decomposition) algorithm or an efficiency HHD (efficiency Huo Jihai MHotz decomposition).
According to the embodiment of the invention, the elastic deformation field is decomposed according to the Huo Jihai Muholtz decomposition algorithm, so that more accurate non-rotating field and potential function of the non-rotating field can be obtained, and further, more accurate evaluation result of the ablation treatment effect can be obtained.
Fig. 2 is a functional block diagram of an evaluation device for the therapeutic effect of an ablation procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention. Based on the content of the above embodiment, as shown in fig. 2, an apparatus for evaluating the effect of ablation surgery treatment includes a preprocessing module 201, an image registration module 202, and an effect evaluation module 203, wherein:
the preprocessing module 201 is configured to respectively preprocess a tumor area in the preoperative image and an ablation area in the postoperative image, so that the gray distribution of the tumor area in the preprocessed preoperative image is the same as the gray distribution of the organ tissue area around the tumor area, and the gray distribution of the ablation area in the preprocessed postoperative image is the same as the gray distribution of the organ tissue area around the ablation area;
the image registration module 202 is configured to perform image registration on a tumor region in the preprocessed preoperative image and an ablation region in the preprocessed postoperative image, obtain an elastic deformation field, perform vector field analysis on the elastic deformation field, and determine a tumor contraction center point;
The effect evaluation module 203 is configured to map a tumor region in the preprocessed preoperative image to a preprocessed postoperative image after image registration according to a tumor contraction center point, and obtain an evaluation result of an ablation treatment effect according to the tumor region mapped to the preprocessed postoperative image and an ablation region in the preprocessed postoperative image after image registration;
wherein the elastic deformation field is used to describe the shrinkage of the tumor.
Specifically, after the preoperative image and the postoperative image of the patient are acquired, the preprocessing module 201 respectively preprocesses the tumor area in the preoperative image and the ablation area in the postoperative image, so that the gray distribution of the tumor area in the preoperative image after preprocessing is the same as the gray distribution of the organ tissue area around the tumor area, the gray distribution of the ablation area in the postoperative image after preprocessing is the same as the gray distribution of the organ tissue area around the ablation area, the edge alignment of the tumor area and the ablation area in the subsequent image registration process is avoided, and the false matching of the tumor area and the ablation area occurs in the registration.
The image registration module 202 performs image registration on a tumor region in the preprocessed preoperative image and an ablation region in the preprocessed postoperative image to obtain an elastic deformation field for describing shrinkage of the tumor; after the elastic deformation field is obtained, vector field analysis is carried out on the elastic deformation field, and the tumor shrinkage center point is determined.
The effect evaluation module 203 maps the tumor area in the preprocessed preoperative image to the preprocessed postoperative image after image registration according to the tumor contraction center point, and obtains an evaluation result of the ablation treatment effect.
The specific method and flow of each module included in the evaluation device for the ablation treatment effect to realize the corresponding function are detailed in the embodiment of the evaluation method for the ablation treatment effect, and are not repeated here.
The evaluation device of the ablation treatment effect is used for the evaluation method of the ablation treatment effect of the foregoing embodiments. Therefore, the description and definition in the evaluation method of the ablation procedure treatment effect in the foregoing embodiments can be used for understanding the respective execution modules in the embodiments of the present invention.
According to the embodiment of the invention, after the pre-operation image and the post-operation image are preprocessed, the preprocessed pre-operation image and the preprocessed post-operation image are subjected to image registration, an elastic deformation field is obtained, vector field analysis is carried out on the elastic deformation field, a tumor contraction center point is determined, a tumor area is mapped onto the post-operation image according to the tumor contraction center point, an evaluation result of the ablation treatment effect is obtained, the contraction of the tumor in operation can be accurately reflected, and thus a more accurate evaluation result of the ablation treatment effect can be obtained.
Fig. 3 is a block diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention. Based on the content of the above embodiment, as shown in fig. 3, the electronic device may include: a processor (processor) 301, a memory (memory) 302, and a bus 303; wherein the processor 301 and the memory 302 perform communication with each other through the bus 303; the processor 301 is configured to invoke computer program instructions stored in the memory 302 and executable on the processor 301 to perform the methods provided by the method embodiments described above, including, for example: respectively preprocessing a tumor region in the preoperative image and an ablation region in the postoperative image, so that the gray scale distribution of the tumor region in the preprocessed preoperative image is the same as the gray scale distribution of the organ tissue region around the tumor region, and the gray scale distribution of the ablation region in the preprocessed postoperative image is the same as the gray scale distribution of the organ tissue region around the ablation region; image registration is carried out on a tumor region in the preprocessed preoperative image and an ablation region in the preprocessed postoperative image, an elastic deformation field is obtained, vector field analysis is carried out on the elastic deformation field, and a tumor contraction center point is determined; according to the tumor shrinkage center point, mapping a tumor region in the preprocessed preoperative image onto the preprocessed postoperative image after image registration, and according to the tumor region mapped onto the preprocessed postoperative image after image registration and the ablation region in the preprocessed postoperative image after image registration, obtaining an evaluation result of the ablation treatment effect.
Another embodiment of the present invention discloses a computer program product comprising a computer program stored on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, the computer program comprising program instructions which, when executed by a computer, are capable of performing the methods provided by the above-described method embodiments, for example comprising: respectively preprocessing a tumor region in the preoperative image and an ablation region in the postoperative image, so that the gray scale distribution of the tumor region in the preprocessed preoperative image is the same as the gray scale distribution of the organ tissue region around the tumor region, and the gray scale distribution of the ablation region in the preprocessed postoperative image is the same as the gray scale distribution of the organ tissue region around the ablation region; image registration is carried out on a tumor region in the preprocessed preoperative image and an ablation region in the preprocessed postoperative image, an elastic deformation field is obtained, vector field analysis is carried out on the elastic deformation field, and a tumor contraction center point is determined; according to the tumor shrinkage center point, mapping a tumor region in the preprocessed preoperative image onto the preprocessed postoperative image after image registration, and according to the tumor region mapped onto the preprocessed postoperative image after image registration and the ablation region in the preprocessed postoperative image after image registration, obtaining an evaluation result of the ablation treatment effect.
Further, the logic instructions in memory 302 described above may be implemented in the form of software functional units and stored in a computer readable storage medium when sold or used as a stand alone product. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the embodiments of the present invention may be embodied in essence or a part contributing to the prior art or a part of the technical solution, in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium, including several instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device, etc.) to perform all or part of the steps of the method described in the embodiments of the present invention. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: a U-disk, a removable hard disk, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a random access Memory (RAM, random Access Memory), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk, or other various media capable of storing program codes.
Another embodiment of the present invention provides a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer instructions that cause a computer to perform the methods provided by the above-described method embodiments, for example, including: respectively preprocessing a tumor region in the preoperative image and an ablation region in the postoperative image, so that the gray scale distribution of the tumor region in the preprocessed preoperative image is the same as the gray scale distribution of the organ tissue region around the tumor region, and the gray scale distribution of the ablation region in the preprocessed postoperative image is the same as the gray scale distribution of the organ tissue region around the ablation region; image registration is carried out on a tumor region in the preprocessed preoperative image and an ablation region in the preprocessed postoperative image, an elastic deformation field is obtained, vector field analysis is carried out on the elastic deformation field, and a tumor contraction center point is determined; according to the tumor shrinkage center point, mapping a tumor region in the preprocessed preoperative image onto the preprocessed postoperative image after image registration, and according to the tumor region mapped onto the preprocessed postoperative image after image registration and the ablation region in the preprocessed postoperative image after image registration, obtaining an evaluation result of the ablation treatment effect.
The apparatus embodiments described above are merely illustrative, wherein elements illustrated as separate elements may or may not be physically separate, and elements shown as elements may or may not be physical elements, may be located in one place, or may be distributed over a plurality of network elements. Some or all of the modules may be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of this embodiment. Those of ordinary skill in the art will understand and implement the present invention without undue burden.
From the above description of the embodiments, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the embodiments may be implemented by means of software plus necessary general hardware platforms, or of course may be implemented by means of hardware. It is to be understood that the foregoing aspects, in essence, or portions thereof, may be embodied in the form of a software product that may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium, such as ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk, etc., including instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, server, or network device, etc.) to perform the various embodiments, or methods of portions of the embodiments, described above.
Finally, it should be noted that: the above embodiments are only for illustrating the technical solution of the present invention, and are not limiting; although the invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: the technical scheme described in the foregoing embodiments can be modified or some technical features thereof can be replaced by equivalents; such modifications and substitutions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention.