Title
Mid-Space-Independent Symmetric Data Term for Pairwise Deformable Image Registration
Abstract
Aligning a pair of images in a mid-space is a common approach to ensuring that deformable image registration is symmetric - that it does not depend on the arbitrary ordering of the input images. The results are, however, generally dependent on the choice of the mid-space. In particular, the set of possible solutions is typically affected by the constraints that are enforced on the two transformations (that deform the two images), which are to prevent the mid-space from drifting too far from the native image spaces. The use of an implicit atlas has been proposed to define the mid-space for registration. In this work, by aligning the atlas to each image in the native image space, we make implicit-atlas-based pairwise registration independent of the mid-space, thereby eliminating the need for anti-drift constraints. We derive a new symmetric data term that only depends on a single transformation morphing one image to the other, and validate it through diffeomorphic registration experiments on brain MR images.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-24571-3_32
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Field
DocType
Volume
Computational anatomy,Morphing,Pairwise comparison,Computer vision,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Image registration,Diffeomorphism
Conference
9350
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
1
0.35
References 
Authors
17
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Iman Aganj119518.93
Iglesias Juan Eugenio249731.51
Martin Reuter334916.09
Sabuncu Mert R.4134478.78
Fischl Bruce54131219.39