Title
A stabilized multigrid solver for hyperelastic image registration.
Abstract
Image registration is a central problem in a variety of areas involving imaging techniques and is known to be challenging and ill-posed. Regularization functionals based on hyperelasticity provide a powerful mechanism for limiting the ill-posedness. A key feature of hyperelastic image registration approaches is their ability to model large deformations while guaranteeing their invertibility, which is crucial in many applications. To ensure that numerical solutions satisfy this requirement, we discretize the variational problem using piecewise linear finite elements, and then solve the discrete optimization problem using the Gauss-Newton method. In this work, we focus on computational challenges arising in approximately solving the Hessian system. We show that the Hessian is a discretization of a strongly coupled system of partial differential equations whose coefficients can be severely inhomogeneous. Motivated by a local Fourier analysis, we stabilize the system by thresholding the coefficients. We propose a Galerkin-multigrid scheme with a collective pointwise smoother. We demonstrate the accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed scheme, first on a two-dimensional problem of a moderate size and then on a large-scale real-world application with almost 9million degrees of freedom.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1002/nla.2095
NUMERICAL LINEAR ALGEBRA WITH APPLICATIONS
Keywords
Field
DocType
image registration,biomedical imaging,multigrid methods,numerical optimization
Discretization,Mathematical optimization,Mathematical analysis,Hessian matrix,Finite element method,Solver,Piecewise linear function,Multigrid method,Image registration,Mathematics,Pointwise
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
24.0
5.0
1070-5325
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lars Ruthotto115016.53
CHEN GREIF232143.63
Jan Modersitzki338338.39