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Improved image registration by sparse patch-based deformation estimation

Authors
Kim, MinjeongWu, GuorongWang, QianLee, Seong-WhanShen, Dinggang
Issue Date
15-1월-2015
Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
Keywords
Deformable image registration; Sparse representation; Initial deformation prediction
Citation
NEUROIMAGE, v.105, pp.257 - 268
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SCIE
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Journal Title
NEUROIMAGE
Volume
105
Start Page
257
End Page
268
URI
https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/94631
DOI
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.10.019
ISSN
1053-8119
Abstract
Despite intensive efforts for decades, deformable image registration is still a challenging problem due to the potential large anatomical differences across individual images, which limits the registration performance. Fortunately, this issue could be alleviated if a good initial deformation can be provided for the two images under registration, which are often termed as the moving subject and the fixed template, respectively. In this work, we present a novel patch-based initial deformation prediction framework for improving the performance of existing registration algorithms. Our main idea is to estimate the initial deformation between subject and template in a patch-wise fashion by using the sparse representation technique. We argue that two image patches should follow the same deformation toward the template image if their patch-wise appearance patterns are similar. To this end, our framework consists of two stages, i.e., the training stage and the application stage. In the training stage, we register all training images to the pre-selected template, such that the deformation of each training image with respect to the template is known. In the application stage, we apply the following four steps to efficiently calculate the initial deformation field for the new test subject: (1) We pick a small number of key points in the distinctive regions of the test subject; (2) for each key point, we extract a local patch and form a coupled appearance-deformation dictionary from training images where each dictionary atom consists of the image intensity patch as well as their respective local deformations; (3) a small set of training image patches in the coupled dictionary are selected to represent the image patch of each subject key point by sparse representation. Then, we can predict the initial deformation for each subject key point by propagating the pre-estimated deformations on the selected training patches with the same sparse representation coefficients; and (4) we employ thin-plate splines (TPS) to interpolate a dense initial deformation field by considering all key points as the control points. Thus, the conventional image registration problem becomes much easier in the sense that we only need to compute the remaining small deformation for completing the registration of the subject to the template. Experimental results on both simulated and real data show that the registration performance can be significantly improved after integrating our patch-based deformation prediction framework into the existing registration algorithms. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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