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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTB.2010.17B.4.303

Medical Image Registration by Combining Gradient Vector Flow and Conditional Entropy Measure  

Lee, Myung-Eun (전남대학교 전자컴퓨터공학부)
Kim, Soo-Hyung (전남대학교 전자컴퓨터공학부)
Kim, Sun-Worl (전남대학교 통계학과)
Lim, Jun-Sik (전남대학교 전자컴퓨터공학부)
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a medical image registration technique combining the gradient vector flow and modified conditional entropy. The registration is conducted by the use of a measure based on the entropy of conditional probabilities. To achieve the registration, we first define a modified conditional entropy (MCE) computed from the joint histograms for the area intensities of two given images. In order to combine the spatial information into a traditional registration measure, we use the gradient vector flow field. Then the MCE is computed from the gradient vector flow intensity (GVFI) combining the gradient information and their intensity values of original images. To evaluate the performance of the proposed registration method, we conduct experiments with our method as well as existing method based on the mutual information (MI) criteria. We evaluate the precision of MI- and MCE-based measurements by comparing the registration obtained from MR images and transformed CT images. The experimental results show that the proposed method is faster and more accurate than other optimization methods.
Keywords
Medical Image Registration; Conditional Entropy; Joint Probability; Gradient Vector Flow Intensity; Mutual Information;
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