BronchoX : bronchoscopy exploration software for biopsy intervention planning
Ramírez, Esmitt (Centre de Visió per Computador)
Sánchez Ramos, Carles (Centre de Visió per Computador)
Borràs, Agnés (Centre de Visió per Computador)
Diez-Ferrer, Marta (Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge)
Rosell Gratacos, Antoni (Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge)
Gil, Debora (Centre de Visió per Computador)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Date:	2018
Abstract:	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.
Grants:	Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad DPI2015/65286-R Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad BES2016/078042 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2014/SGR-1470
Note:	Altres: ACCIO Tecniospring TECSPR17-1-0045
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	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
Published in:	Healthcare Technology Letters, Vol. 5, Issue 5 (October 2018) , p. 177-182, ISSN 2053-3713

DOI: 10.1049/htl.2018.5074
PMID: 30464850

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