Title
On the Applicability of Registration Uncertainty
Abstract
Estimating the uncertainty in (probabilistic) image registration enables, e.g., surgeons to assess the operative risk based on the trustworthiness of the registered image data. If surgeons receive inaccurately calculated registration uncertainty and misplace unwarranted confidence in the alignment solutions, severe consequences may result. For probabilistic image registration (PIR), the predominant way to quantify the registration uncertainty is using summary statistics of the distribution of transformation parameters. The majority of existing research focuses on trying out different summary statistics as well as means to exploit them. Distinctively, in this paper, we study two rarely examined topics: (1) whether those summary statistics of the transformation distribution most informatively represent the registration uncertainty; (2) Does utilizing the registration uncertainty always be beneficial. We show that there are two types of uncertainties: the transformation uncertainty, U-t, and label uncertainty U-l. The conventional way of using Ut to quantify U-l is inappropriate and can be misleading. By a real data experiment, we also share a potentially critical finding that making use of the registration uncertainty may not always be an improvement.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/978-3-030-32245-8_46
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Image registration,Registration uncertainty
Conference
11765
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
11
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jie Luo113616.23
Alireza Sedghi2126.80
Karteek Popuri3598.80
Dana Cobzas420722.19
Miaomiao Zhang513226.12
Frank Preiswerk6777.16
Matthew Toews724720.60
Alexandra J Golby89613.93
Masashi Sugiyama93353264.24
wells109020.17
Sarah F. Frisken1100.68