Essay On Image Registration Techniques

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CHAPTER 3

Overview of Image Registration Techniques

The field of Image Registration is an immense and ever expanding field. By the early stages of 1993, There existed over 120 papers written on registration problem, as cited in survey article written by van den Elsen et al.[199]. Since then the number of papers published have grown exponentially.

This chapter will discuss elements of registration techniques according to a classification that was originally proposed by van den Elsen et al.[199] and later extended by Maintz et al .[120]. The set of criteria described is explained in fig 3.1.
This classification includes algorithm’s dimensionality, nature of registration algorithm, nature and domain of transformation, user interaction, optimization procedure, modalities involved and type of subjects used in algorithm.

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3.1 Dimensionality- 2D, 3D, 4 D

One of the most obvious classifications which came out from the set of image registration technique is about Dimensions that means how many dimensions are used in the registration process. The range of this dimension can be from a simple 2D to a complex time series registration of 3D data, i.e. 4D process [49].On the basis of dimension registration algorithm can be decided into two parts-those that deal with time series registration and those that do not,i.e. only deal with spatial dimension.

3.1.1 Registration involving Spatial Dimension

The algorithm that only deal with this field of spatial dimensions can be further classified into 2 D and 3D. Registration algorithm can be applied to both 2D and 3D data sets very easily. The only difference in 3D however, is that the size of data set is greatly increased and the number of transforma...

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... tomographic images are matched with an anatomical atlas or some other model. Such procedure can facilitate automatic segmentation [42].

2.7 Subject

This classification refers to subjects that are involved in registration process. This can be classified as inter-subject, intra-subject or subject to model registration. Intra-subject is mostly used .In this data is from same scenario, like from same patient. This type of registration can be used in almost every diagnostic.

Inter-subject is quite complicated as transformation must overcome the inherent anatomical differences that exists between two different scenario. That’s why mostly inter-subject algorithm is based on curved transformation.
Subject to model is essentially the same as that of modality to model. Thus all the techniques for modality to model is also applicable to subject to model registration also.

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