Surgical planning for brain intervention (SPBI) using multimodal brain MR images

Abstract

Interventional MRI (i-MRI) has been used for improving the accuracy and safety of brain intervention. The surgical navigation system that provides guidance before and during the intervention is crucial for the operation, especially for robot-assisted neurosurgery. Here we present a Surgical Planning for Brain Intervention (SPBI) software system. SPBI provides a series of functionalities to improve the safety and precision of brain intervention, including brain tissue segmentation, vessel segmentation, fiber tracking, and intervention path planning. Multimodal brain MR images from healthy volunteers were used for demonstration of the functionalities. Codes and sample data are open-sourced and publicly available.