Quantitative volumetric assessment of percutaneous image-guided microwave ablations for colorectal liver metastases

Sandu, Raluca-Maria; Paolucci, Iwan; Tinguely, Pascale Marie Pia; Weber, Stefan; Freedman, Jacob (20 September 2019). Quantitative volumetric assessment of percutaneous image-guided microwave ablations for colorectal liver metastases (Unpublished). In: CURAC - 18th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Computer- and Robot-Assisted Surgery. Reutligen, Germany. 19 Sep - 21 Sep 2019.

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Thermal ablations are becoming an increasingly common alternative treatment to surgery in patients with primary and secondary hepatic tumors. In image-guided percutaneous ablations of liver tumors, the technical post-interventional success of ablation treatment is defined by achieving complete tumor destruction and an ablation margin of at least 5 mm. Therefore, it is crucial that proper ablation verification is ensured intra-operatively or immediately post-operatively. In the current setting, the ablation-tumor coverage is visually evaluated by an interventional radiologist who compares the differences between the pre- and post-ablation images. To address this limitation, we have developed an image analysis pipeline consisting of a set of quantitative methods for evaluating the volumetric coverage of the ablation, which could be added to image-guidance systems. In this work, we present the quantitative ablation evaluation method and preliminary results after applying it to a retrospective cohort of 100 patients that were treated with image-guided percutaneous ablations for colorectal liver metastasis.

Item Type:

Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > BioMedical Research (DBMR) > DBMR Forschung Mu35 > Forschungsgruppe Viszeralchirurgie
04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > BioMedical Research (DBMR) > DBMR Forschung Mu35 > Forschungsgruppe Viszeralchirurgie

10 Strategic Research Centers > ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research > ARTORG Center - Image Guided Therapy

Graduate School:

Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences (GCB)

UniBE Contributor:

Sandu, Raluca-Maria, Paolucci, Iwan, Tinguely, Pascale Marie Pia, Weber, Stefan (B)

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health
600 Technology > 620 Engineering

Language:

English

Submitter:

Raluca-Maria Sandu

Date Deposited:

15 Jan 2020 08:10

Last Modified:

29 Mar 2023 23:36

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BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.136406

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/136406

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