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Despite intensive research towards markerless registration approaches, fiducial marker-based methods remain the default choice for a wide range of applications in clinical practice. However, as especially non-invasive markers cannot be positioned reproducibly in the same pose on the patient, pre-interventional imaging has to be performed immediately before the intervention for fiducial marker-based registrations.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>We propose a new non-invasive, reattachable fiducial skin marker concept for multi-modal registration approaches including the use of electromagnetic or optical tracking technologies. We furthermore describe a robust, automatic fiducial marker localization algorithm for computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images. Localization of the new fiducial marker has been assessed for different marker configurations using both CT and MRI. Furthermore, we applied the marker in an abdominal phantom study. For this, we attached the marker at three poses to the phantom, registered ten segmented targets of the phantom\u2019s CT image to live ultrasound images and determined the target registration error (TRE) for each target and each marker pose.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Reattachment of the marker was possible with a mean precision of 0.02\u00a0mm\u00a0\u00b1\u00a00.01\u00a0mm. Our algorithm successfully localized the marker automatically in all (<jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$n=201$$<\/jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\">\n                    <mml:mrow>\n                      <mml:mi>n<\/mml:mi>\n                      <mml:mo>=<\/mml:mo>\n                      <mml:mn>201<\/mml:mn>\n                    <\/mml:mrow>\n                  <\/mml:math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>) evaluated CT\/MRI images. Depending on the marker pose, the mean (<jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$n=10$$<\/jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\">\n                    <mml:mrow>\n                      <mml:mi>n<\/mml:mi>\n                      <mml:mo>=<\/mml:mo>\n                      <mml:mn>10<\/mml:mn>\n                    <\/mml:mrow>\n                  <\/mml:math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>) TRE of the abdominal phantom study ranged from 1.51\u00a0\u00b1\u00a00.75\u00a0mm to 4.65\u00a0\u00b1\u00a01.22\u00a0mm.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>The non-invasive, reattachable skin marker concept allows reproducible positioning of the marker and automatic localization in different imaging modalities. The low TREs indicate the potential applicability of the marker concept for clinical interventions, such as the puncture of abdominal lesions, where current image-based registration approaches still lack robustness and existing marker-based methods are often impractical.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1007\/s11548-022-02639-7","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,23]],"date-time":"2022-05-23T04:02:45Z","timestamp":1653278565000},"page":"2141-2150","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Reattachable fiducial skin marker for automatic multimodality registration"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"17","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2218-558X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Benjamin J.","family":"Mittmann","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Alexander","family":"Seitel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Gernot","family":"Echner","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Wiebke","family":"Johnen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Regula","family":"Gnirs","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Lena","family":"Maier-Hein","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Alfred M.","family":"Franz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,23]]},"reference":[{"issue":"1","key":"2639_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"71","DOI":"10.1016\/j.bbe.2017.10.001","volume":"38","author":"F Alam","year":"2018","unstructured":"Alam F, Rahman SU, Ullah S, Gulati K (2018) Medical image registration in image guided surgery: issues, challenges and research opportunities. 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