Silvain Briault1, Fahd Al Subaie2,
Kelvin Mok3, Abbas F. Sadikot2, G. Bruce Pike1
1McConnell Brain Imaging
Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, Montral, Qubec, Canada; 2Department
of Neurology & Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute; 3Neuronavigation
Unit, Montreal Neurological Institute
We propose an automated method for preoperative trajectory planning of deep brain stimulation image-guided neurosurgery. Our framework integrates multi-modal MRI analysis (T1w, SWI, TOF-MRA) to determine an optimal trajectory to the subthalamic nuclei while avoiding critical brain structures for prevention of hemorrhages, loss of function and other complications. Results show that our automatic method aggregates several surgical requirements into a meaningful trajectory ranking, providing neurosurgeons with an intuitive decision-support system intended to improve standard (manual) planning techniques offered by commercial neuronavigation platforms. Our method analyzes over 12,000 trajectories in less than 4 minutes.