Artifact reduction in mutual-information-based CT-MR image registration

Mingxiu Wei; Jundong Liu; Junhong Liu

doi:10.1117/12.536349

12 May 2004 Artifact reduction in mutual-information-based CT-MR image registration

Mingxiu Wei, Jundong Liu, Junhong Liu

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Proceedings Volume 5370, Medical Imaging 2004: Image Processing; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.536349
Event: Medical Imaging 2004, 2004, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Abstract Mutual information (MI) is currently the most popular match metric in handling the registration problem for multi modality images. However, interpolation artifacts impose deteriorating effects to the accuracy and robustness of MI-based methods. This paper analyzes the generation mechanism of the artifacts inherent in linear partial volume interpolation (PVI) and shows that the mutual information resulted from PVI is a convex function within each voxel grid. We conclude that the generation of the artifacts is due to two facts: 1) linear interpolation causes the histogram bin values to change at a synchronized pace; 2) entropy computation function Σxlgx is convex. As a remedy we propose to use non-uniform interpolation functions as the interpolation kernels in estimating the joint histogram. Cubic B-splin and Gaussian interpolators are compared and we demonstrate the improvements via experiments on misalignments between CT/MR brain scans.

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Mingxiu Wei, Jundong Liu, and Junhong Liu "Artifact reduction in mutual-information-based CT-MR image registration", Proc. SPIE 5370, Medical Imaging 2004: Image Processing, (12 May 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.536349

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