Title
On removing interpolation and resampling artifacts in rigid image registration.
Abstract
We show that image registration using conventional interpolation and summation approximations of continuous integrals can generally fail because of resampling artifacts. These artifacts negatively affect the accuracy of registration by producing local optima, altering the gradient, shifting the global optimum, and making rigid registration asymmetric. In this paper, after an extensive literature review, we demonstrate the causes of the artifacts by comparing inclusion and avoidance of resampling analytically. We show the sum-of-squared-differences cost function formulated as an integral to be more accurate compared with its traditional sum form in a simple case of image registration. We then discuss aliasing that occurs in rotation, which is due to the fact that an image represented in the Cartesian grid is sampled with different rates in different directions, and propose the use of oscillatory isotropic interpolation kernels, which allow better recovery of true global optima by overcoming this type of aliasing. Through our experiments on brain, fingerprint, and white noise images, we illustrate the superior performance of the integral registration cost function in both the Cartesian and spherical coordinates, and also validate the introduced radial interpolation kernel by demonstrating the improvement in registration.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/TIP.2012.2224356
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
algorithms,interpolation,image registration,approximation theory,magnetic resonance imaging
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1941-0042
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.57
38
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Iman Aganj119518.93
B. T. Thomas Yeo270736.84
Sabuncu Mert R.3134478.78
Fischl Bruce44131219.39