BronchoX: bronchoscopy exploration software for biopsy intervention planning

Healthcare Technology Letters

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Esmitt Ramírez¹  Carles Sánchez¹  Agnés Borràs¹  Marta Diez-Ferrer²  Antoni Rosell²  Debora Gil¹ 

[1] Computer Vision Center, Autonomous University of Barcelona;Bellvitge University Hospital, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat

关键词: medical image processing;    computerised tomography;    pneumodynamics;    medical computing;    lung;    path planning;    image segmentation;    BronchoX;    navigation;    PLs;    biopsy intervention planning;    virtual bronchoscopy;    noninvasive exploration tool;    VB software;    medical software developers;    pulmonary lesions;    bronchoscopy exploration software;    virtual paths planning;    trachea;    physician readable instructions;    segmentation;    visualisation;    respiratory tract;    bronchioles;   

DOI  :  10.1049/htl.2018.5074

学科分类：肠胃与肝脏病学

来源: Wiley

【 摘 要 】

Virtual bronchoscopy (VB) is a non-invasive exploration tool for intervention planning and navigation of possible pulmonary lesions (PLs). A VB software involves the location of a PL and the calculation of a route, starting from the trachea, to reach it. The selection of a VB software might be a complex process, and there is no consensus in the community of medical software developers in which is the best-suited system to use or framework to choose. The authors present Bronchoscopy Exploration (BronchoX), a VB software to plan biopsy interventions that generate physician-readable instructions to reach the PLs. The authors’ solution is open source, multiplatform, and extensible for future functionalities, designed by their multidisciplinary research and development group. BronchoX is a compound of different algorithms for segmentation, visualisation, and navigation of the respiratory tract. Performed results are a focus on the test the effectiveness of their proposal as an exploration software, also to measure its accuracy as a guiding system to reach PLs. Then, 40 different virtual planning paths were created to guide physicians until distal bronchioles. These results provide a functional software for BronchoX and demonstrate how following simple instructions is possible to reach distal lesions from the trachea.

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