Paper: | SA-PM-PS1.5 |
Session: | Image Registration |
Time: | Saturday, April 8, 13:30 - 14:50 |
Presentation: |
Poster
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Title: |
Continuous Image Representations Avoid the Histogram Binning Problem in Mutual Information Based Image Registration |
Authors: |
Ajit Rajwade; University of Florida | | |
| Arunava Banerjee; University of Florida | | |
| Anand Rangarajan; University of Florida | | |
Abstract: |
Mutual information (MI) based image-registration methods that use histograms are known to suffer from the so-called binning problem, caused by the absence of a principled technique for choosing the “optimal” number of bins to calculate the joint or marginal distributions. In this paper, we show that foregoing the notion of an image as a set of discrete pixel locations, and adopting a continuous representation is the solution to this problem. A new technique to calculate joint image histograms is proposed, which makes use of such a continuous representation. We report results on affine registration of a pair of 2D medical images under high noise, and demonstrate the smoothness of various information-theoretic distance measures such as joint entropy orMI w.r.t. the transformation, when our proposed technique (referred to as the “robust histogram”) is adopted to compute the required probability distributions. |