Title
Maximum distance-gradient for robust image registration.
Abstract
To make up for the lack of concern on the spatial information in the conventional mutual information based image registration framework, this paper designs a novel spatial feature field, namely the maximum distance-gradient (MDG) vector field, for registration tasks. It encodes both the local edge information and globally defined spatial information related to the intensity difference, the distance, and the direction of a voxel to a MDG source point. A novel similarity measure is proposed as the combination of the multi-dimensional mutual information and an angle measure on the MDG vector field. This measure integrates both the magnitude and orientation information of the MDG vector field into the image registration process.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1016/j.media.2008.01.004
Medical Image Analysis
Keywords
Field
DocType
Image registration,Multi-modality,Medical imaging,Maximum distance-gradient,Mutual information
Voxel,Spatial analysis,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Similarity measure,Vector field,Medical imaging,Mutual information,Artificial intelligence,Image resolution,Mathematics,Image registration
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
4
1361-8415
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
1.12
17
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rui Gan118313.62
Albert C. S. Chung296472.07
Shu Liao31287.88