EEG to MRI Registration Based on Global and Local Similarities of MRI Intensity Distributions

  • Authors:

  • Žiga Špiclin;Arne Hans;Frank H. Duffy;Simon K. Warfield;Boštjan Likar;Franjo Pernuš

  • Affiliations:

  • Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia;Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital Boston, USA;Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital Boston, USA;Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital Boston, USA;Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia;Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

  • Venue:
  • MICCAI '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - Part I
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper, a novel method for EEG to MRI registration is proposed. Initial registration is achieved by extracting and matching symmetry planes of MRI and EEG data, followed by iterative registration based on minimizing a cost function. Comparison of the intensity distributions of the whole MR image and MRI voxels around a head surface point yields global similarities, while the comparison of intensity distributions of MRI voxels around corresponding EEG points, which reflects the head's sagittal symmetry, yields local similarities. Therefore, when the EEG points are registered to the MR image, maximal global and local similarities should be obtained. The cost function, incorporating global and local similarities, was the sum of Kullback-Leibler divergences between corresponding intensity distributions. The proposed method was evaluated on clinical MRI data with simulated EEG data, yielding mean registration error of 0.48 ±0.33 mm, while with real EEG data an average root-mean-square point-to-surface error of 2.27 ±0.02 mm was obtained.