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Clinton Fookes

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Proceedings Article | 12 May 2004 Paper

Optimal grid point selection for improved nonrigid medical image registration

Clinton Fookes, Anthony Maeder

Proceedings Volume 5370, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.536828

KEYWORDS: Image registration, Medical imaging, Image processing, Convolution, Monte Carlo methods, 3D image processing, Image restoration, Image segmentation, Neuroimaging, Brain

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Non-rigid image registration is an essential tool required for overcoming the inherent local anatomical variations that exist between medical images acquired from different individuals or atlases, among others. This type of registration defines a deformation field that gives a translation or mapping for every pixel in the image. One popular local approach for estimating this deformation field, known as block matching, is where a grid of control points are defined on an image and are each taken as the centre of a small window. These windows are then translated in the second image to maximise a local similarity criterion. This generates two corresponding sets of control points for the two images, yielding a sparse deformation field. This sparse field can then be propagated to the entire image using well known methods such as the thin-plate spline warp or simple Gaussian convolution. Previous block matching procedures all utilise uniformly distributed grid points. This results in the generation of a sparse deformation field containing displacement estimates at uniformly spaced locations. This neglects to make use of the evidence that block matching results are dependent on the amount of local information content. That is, results are better in regions of high information when compared to regions of low information. Consequently, this paper presents a solution to this drawback by proposing the use of a Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo (RJMCMC) statistical procedure to optimally select grid points of interest. These grid points have a greater concentration in regions of high information and a lower concentration in regions of small information. Results show that non-rigid registration can by improved by using optimally selected grid points of interest.

Proceedings Article | 4 May 2004 Paper

Attentional perceptual thresholds for manipulated digitized mammograms

Anthony Maeder, Clinton Fookes

Proceedings Volume 5372, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.536984

KEYWORDS: Signal to noise ratio, Mammography, Visualization, Eye, Image enhancement, Breast, Image processing, Image quality, Image contrast enhancement, Quantitative analysis

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This paper describes a series of experiments to investigate influence of perceptual response in skilled observers, due to subtle pixel intensity transforms in radiological images. Contrast and edge enhancement operations were applied to digitized mammograms, in order to determine thresholds at which variations in attentional behavior not consciously identified by the observer were detected, during normal visual scanning procedures in a typical screening viewing situation. Continuous tracking of eye movements was undertaken to obtain patterns of fixation sequences and durations for three different observers, and both qualitative and quantitative analyses were applied to this data. Consistent thresholds at which attentional perturbation occurred were established based on levels of aggregated pixel errors determined by SNR values, across the different methods of image manipulation considered.

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