Comparison and evaluation of joint histogram estimation methods for mutual information based image registration

Yongfang Liang; Hua-mei Chen

doi:10.1117/12.596417

29 April 2005 Comparison and evaluation of joint histogram estimation methods for mutual information based image registration

Yongfang Liang, Hua-mei Chen

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Proceedings Volume 5747, Medical Imaging 2005: Image Processing; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.596417
Event: Medical Imaging, 2005, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Joint histogram is the only quantity required to calculate the mutual information (MI) between two images. For MI based image registration, joint histograms are often estimated through linear interpolation or partial volume interpolation (PVI). It has been pointed out that both methods may result in a phenomenon known as interpolation induced artifacts. In this paper, we implemented a wide range of interpolation/approximation kernels for joint histogram estimation. Some kernels are nonnegative. In this case, these kernels are applied in two ways as the linear kernel is applied in linear interpolation and PVI. In addition, we implemented two other joint histogram estimation methods devised to overcome the interpolation artifact problem. They are nearest neighbor interpolation with jittered sampling with/without histogram blurring and data resampling. We used the clinical data obtained from Vanderbilt University for all of the experiments. The objective of this study is to perform a comprehensive comparison and evaluation of different joint histogram estimation methods for MI based image registration in terms of artifacts reduction and registration accuracy.

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Yongfang Liang and Hua-mei Chen "Comparison and evaluation of joint histogram estimation methods for mutual information based image registration", Proc. SPIE 5747, Medical Imaging 2005: Image Processing, (29 April 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.596417

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