Title
Anatomy-preserving nonlinear registration of deep brain ROIs using confidence-based block-matching.
Abstract
Brain atlases are commonly used in a number of applications such as MRI segmentation and surgery targetting. Our goal is to register a basal ganglia atlas to a subject using MR image registration. Existing registration methods are for the most part either too constrained (linear registration) or can deform deep brain ROIs into implausible anatomical shapes. We developed a block-matching registration method suitable for atlas registration, using a new confidence-based regularization of the vector field. The method was used to register a set of 17 manually segmented MRI onto one subject. Results show that basal ganglia structures were better registered than when using an affine registration method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-540-85990-1_115
MICCAI (2)
Keywords
Field
DocType
existing registration method,mr image registration,anatomy-preserving nonlinear registration,mri segmentation,block-matching registration method,deep brain,affine registration method,basal ganglia atlas,linear registration,confidence-based block-matching,brain atlas,atlas registration,basal ganglia structure,vector field
Affine transformation,Computer vision,Nonlinear system,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Segmentation,Atlas (anatomy),Regularization (mathematics),Artificial intelligence,Image registration
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
11
Pt 2
0302-9743
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.52
10
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Manik Bhattacharjee1162.55
Alain Pitiot216413.71
Alexis Roche31220124.19
Didier Dormont422418.59
Eric Bardinet544145.55