Feasibility Study of Intelligent Three-Dimensional Accurate Liver Reconstruction Technology Based on MRI Data

Shaodong Cao; Huan Li; Suyu Dong; Zhenxuan Gao

doi:10.3389/fmed.2022.834555

Feasibility Study of Intelligent Three-Dimensional Accurate Liver Reconstruction Technology Based on MRI Data

Front Med (Lausanne). 2022 Mar 17:9:834555. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.834555. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Shaodong Cao¹, Huan Li¹, Suyu Dong², Zhenxuan Gao³

Affiliations

¹ Medical Imaging Department of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
² The School of Information and Computer Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China.
³ Neurosurgery Department of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.

Abstract

Intelligent three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction technology plays an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. It has been widely used in assisted liver surgery. At present, the 3D reconstruction information of liver is mainly obtained based on CT enhancement data. It has also been commercialized. However, there are few reports on the display of 3D reconstruction information of the liver based on MRI. The purpose of this study is to propose a new idea of intelligent 3D liver reconstruction based on MRI technology and verify its feasibility. Two different liver scanning data (CT and MRI) were selected from the same batch of patients at the same time (patients with a time interval of no more than two weeks and without surgery). The results of liver volume, segmentation, tumor, and simulated surgery based on MRI volume data were compared with those based on CT data. The results show that the results of 3D reconstruction based on MRI data are highly consistent with those based on CT 3D reconstruction. At the same time, in addition to providing the information provided by CT 3D reconstruction, it also has its irreplaceable advantages. For example, multi-phase (early, middle and late arterial, hepatobiliary, etc.) scanning of MRI technology can provide more disease information and display of biliary diseases. In a word, MRI technology can be used for 3D reconstruction of the liver. Hence, a new feasible and effective method to show the liver itself and its disease characteristics is proposed.

Keywords: 3D precise reconstruction technology; cancer; liver; segmentation; simulated liver surgery.