Title
A Fast Piece-wise Deformable Method for Multi-Modality Image Registration
Abstract
Medical image fusion is becoming increasingly popular for enhancing diagnostic accuracy by intelligently 'fusing' information obtained from two different images. These images may be obtained from the same modality at different time instances or from multiple modalities recording complementary information. Due to the nature of the human body and also due to patient motion and breathing, there is a need for deformable registration algorithms in medical imaging. Typical non-parametric (deformable) registration algorithms such as the fluid-based, demons and curvaturebased techniques are computationally intensive and have been demonstrated for mono-modality registrations only. We propose a fast and deformable algorithm using a 2- tiered strategy wherein a global MI-based affine registration is followed by a local piece-wise refinement. We have successfully tested this method on CT and PET images and validated the same using clinical experts.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/AIPR.2005.7
AIPR
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
different time instance,complementary information,PET image,medical image fusion,mono-modality registration,global MI-based affine registration,medical imaging,deformable registration algorithm,Fast Piece-wise Deformable Method,different image,deformable algorithm,Multi-Modality Image
Conference
0-7695-2479-6
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.57
6
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Girish Gopalakrishnan1133.20
S. V. Bharath Kumar2133.38
Ajay Narayanan362.22
Rakesh Mullick47114.86