Hierarchical segmentation-assisted multimodal registration for MR brain images |
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Authors: | Huanxiang Lu Roland Beisteiner Lutz-Peter Nolte Mauricio Reyes |
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Institution: | 1. Institute of Surgical Technologies and Biomechanics, University of Bern, Switzerland;2. Department of Neurology, MR Center of Excellence, Medical University of Vienna, Austria |
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Abstract: | Information theory-based metric such as mutual information (MI) is widely used as similarity measurement for multimodal registration. Nevertheless, this metric may lead to matching ambiguity for non-rigid registration. Moreover, maximization of MI alone does not necessarily produce an optimal solution. In this paper, we propose a segmentation-assisted similarity metric based on point-wise mutual information (PMI). This similarity metric, termed SPMI, enhances the registration accuracy by considering tissue classification probabilities as prior information, which is generated from an expectation maximization (EM) algorithm. Diffeomorphic demons is then adopted as the registration model and is optimized in a hierarchical framework (H-SPMI) based on different levels of anatomical structure as prior knowledge. The proposed method is evaluated using Brainweb synthetic data and clinical fMRI images. Both qualitative and quantitative assessment were performed as well as a sensitivity analysis to the segmentation error. Compared to the pure intensity-based approaches which only maximize mutual information, we show that the proposed algorithm provides significantly better accuracy on both synthetic and clinical data. |
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Keywords: | Multimodal non-rigid registration Tissue classification EPI distortion correction |
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