A hamiltonian particle method for diffeomorphic image registration

  • Authors:
  • Stephen Marsland;Robert McLachlan

  • Affiliations:
  • Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand;Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • IPMI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Information processing in medical imaging
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Diffeomorphic image registration, where images are aligned using diffeomorphic warps, is a popular subject for research in medical image analysis. We introduce a novel algorithm for computing diffeomorphic warps that solves the Euler equations on the diffeomorphism group explicitly, based on a discretisation of the Hamiltonian, rather than using an optimiser. The result is an algorithm that is many times faster than those considered previously.