Title
Groupwise Registration via Graph Shrinkage on the Image Manifold
Abstract
Recently, group wise registration has been investigated for simultaneous alignment of all images without selecting any individual image as the template, thus avoiding the potential bias in image registration. However, none of current group wise registration method fully utilizes the image distribution to guide the registration. Thus, the registration performance usually suffers from large inter-subject variations across individual images. To solve this issue, we propose a novel group wise registration algorithm for large population dataset, guided by the image distribution on the manifold. Specifically, we first use a graph to model the distribution of all image data sitting on the image manifold, with each node representing an image and each edge representing the geodesic pathway between two nodes (or images). Then, the procedure of warping all images to their population center turns to the dynamic shrinking of the graph nodes along their graph edges until all graph nodes become close to each other. Thus, the topology of image distribution on the image manifold is always preserved during the group wise registration. More importantly, by modeling the distribution of all images via a graph, we can potentially reduce registration error since every time each image is warped only according to its nearby images with similar structures in the graph. We have evaluated our proposed group wise registration method on both synthetic and real datasets, with comparison to the two state-of-the-art group wise registration methods. All experimental results show that our proposed method achieves the best performance in terms of registration accuracy and robustness.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/CVPR.2013.301
CVPR
Keywords
Field
DocType
inter-subject variations,individual image,graph node,graph edges,differential geometry,image distribution,image data distribution modeling,image warping,diffeomorphism,group wise registration,synthetic datasets,image distribution topology,graph shrinking,image manifold,registration performance,groupwise registration,dynamic shrinking,novel group wise registration,unbiased groupwise registration,registration accuracy,geodesic pathway,graph theory,groupwise registration algorithm,real datasets,image registration,wise registration method,graph shrinkage,image alignment,registration error,population dataset,graph nodes,manifolds,vectors,sociology,registers,statistics,topology
Graph theory,Population,Computer vision,Image warping,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Robustness (computer science),Artificial intelligence,Geodesic,Image registration,Diffeomorphism,Manifold
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2013
1
1063-6919
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.43
16
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shihui Ying123323.32
Guorong Wu272162.83
Qian Wang353654.97
Dinggang Shen47837611.27