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Jingfeng Han

at Friedrich-Alexander-Univ Erlangen-Nürnberg

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Proceedings Article | 10 March 2006 Paper

A variational approach to spatially dependent non-rigid registration

Florian Jäger, Jingfeng Han, Joachim Hornegger, Torsten Kuwert

Proceedings Volume 6144, 61442O (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.653047

KEYWORDS: Image registration, Positron emission tomography, Distance measurement, Tissues, Optical spheres, Medical imaging, Image segmentation, Computed tomography, Bone, Liver

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In this paper we propose a new method for non-rigid registration of PET/CT datasets incorporating prior knowledge about the rigidity of regions within the PET volumes into the matching process. State-of-the-art medical image registration approaches usually assume that the whole image domain is associated with a homogeneous deformation property, thus bone structure and soft tissue have the same stiffness, for instance. This assumption, however, is invalid in the majority of cases. In many applications the deformation properties can be estimated automatically by a segmentation step, beforehand. The presented non-rigid registration method integrates knowledge about the tissue directly into the deformation field computation. For this reason, no additional post-processing steps, like filtering of the deformation field, are required. To integrate the tissue constraints the regularizer is replaced by a novel spatially dependent smoother. Dependent on the location within the image, the smoother is able to explicitly adjust the rigidity. Thus, different tissue classes can be treated in the registration process. To pass the stiffness coefficients to the algorithm an additional mask image is used. The registration results are illustrated on synthetic data first to give a good intuition about the effectiveness of the proposed method. Finally, we illustrate the improvement of the registration using real clinical data. It is shown that the mono-modal registration of PET images yields more reasonable results using a spatially dependent regularizer constraining the deformations of regions with high tracer concentration than using a normal curvature regularizer. Furthermore, the method is evaluated on multi-modal PET/CT registration problems.

Proceedings Article | 10 March 2006 Paper

Automatic sub-volume registration by probabilistic random search

Jingfeng Han, Min Qiao, Joachim Hornegger, Torsten Kuwert, Werner Bautz, Wolfgang Römer

Proceedings Volume 6144, 61442H (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.652281

KEYWORDS: Image registration, Distance measurement, Rigid registration, Image segmentation, Brain, Magnetic resonance imaging, Data fusion, Neuroimaging, Medical imaging, Stochastic processes

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Registration of an individual's image data set to an anatomical atlas provides valuable information to the physician. In many cases, the individual image data sets are partial data, which may be mapped to one part or one organ of the entire atlas data. Most of the existing intensity based image registration approaches are designed to align images of the entire view. When they are applied to the registration with partial data, a manual pre-registration is usually required. This paper proposes a fully automatic approach to the registration of the incomplete image data to an anatomical atlas. The spatial transformations are modelled as any parametric functions. The proposed method is built upon a random search mechanism, which allows to find the optimal transformation randomly and globally even when the initialization is not ideal. It works more reliably than the existing methods for the partial data registration because it successfully overcomes the local optimum problem. With appropriate similarity measures, this framework is applicable to both mono-modal and multi-modal registration problems with partial data. The contribution of this work is the description of the mathematical framework of the proposed algorithm and the implementation of the related software. The medical evaluation on the MRI data and the comparison of the proposed method with different existing registration methods show the feasibility and superiority of the proposed method.

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