Abstract:
:A new information-theoretic approach is presented for finding the registration of volumetric medical images of differing modalities. Registration is achieved by adjustment of the relative position and orientation until the mutual information between the images is maximized. In our derivation of the registration procedure, few assumptions are made about the nature of the imaging process. As a result the algorithms are quite general and can foreseeably be used with a wide variety of imaging devices. This approach works directly with image data; no pre-processing or segmentation is required. This technique is, however, more flexible and robust than other intensity-based techniques like correlation. Additionally, it has an efficient implementation that is based on stochastic approximation. Experiments are presented that demonstrate the approach registering magnetic resonance (MR) images with computed tomography (CT) images, and with positron-emission tomography (PET) images. Surgical applications of the registration method are described.
journal_name
Med Image Analjournal_title
Medical image analysisauthors
Wells WM 3rd,Viola P,Atsumi H,Nakajima S,Kikinis Rdoi
10.1016/s1361-8415(01)80004-9subject
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1996-03-01 00:00:00pages
35-51issue
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1361-8415issn
1361-8423pii
S1361-8415(01)80004-9journal_volume
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