標題: Nonlinear Registration Based on the Approximation of Radial Basis Function Coefficients
作者: Liu, Jia-Xiu
Chen, Yong-Sheng
Chen, Li-Fen
資訊工程學系
Department of Computer Science
關鍵字: Nonlinear registration;Radial basis function (RBF);Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
公開日期: 2008
摘要: Nonlinear registration is a technique which can accommodate the deformation of structures. It is widely applied to many applications of medical images, such as the analysis of disease characterization and the observation of brain degeneration. This paper presents an efficient approach which can accurately register images. Hierarchial regular meshes of Wendland's radial basis functions are adopted to model the deformation of images from coarse to fine. To efficiently establish the spatial relationship between images, an approxiation method is proposed to determine the coefficients of basis functions according to the spatial interception in deformation. This results an image registration accomplished by a series of fast optimizations with only three degrees of freedom, and avoids the difficulties of direct searching for all coefficients in a huge optimization space. Experimental results indicate that the proposed method is much more accurate than statistical parametric mapping 2 (SPM2) and is superior to hierarchical attribute matching mechanism for elastic registration (HAMMER) and automatic registration toolbox (ART) in both accuracy and efficiency.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11536/9859
ISSN: 1609-0985
期刊: JOURNAL OF MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
Volume: 28
Issue: 3
起始頁: 119
結束頁: 126
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