The extensible open-source rigid and affine image registration module of the Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK)

Authors:
D. Stein;K. H. Fritzsche;M. Nolden;H. P. Meinzer;I. Wolf
Affiliations:
German Cancer Research Center, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany;German Cancer Research Center, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany;German Cancer Research Center, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany;German Cancer Research Center, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany;German Cancer Research Center, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany and Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Paul-Wittsack-Straíe 10, 68163 Mannheim, Germany
Venue:
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Although non-rigid registration methods are available or under development for many specific problems in medicine, rigid and affine registration is an important task that is often performed for pre-aligning images before using non-rigid registration. In this paper, we present a free and open-source application for rigid and affine image registration, which is designed both for developers and for end-users. The application is based on the Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK) and allows for inter-modality and intra-modality rigid 2D-2D and 3D-3D registration of medical images such as CT, MRI, or ultrasound. The framework as well as the application can be easily extended by adding new transforms, metrics and optimizers. Thus, developers of new algorithms are enabled to test and use their algorithms more quickly, spending less work on user interfaces. Additionally, the framework provides the possibility to use image masks to restrict the evaluation of metric values by the optimizer on certain areas of the images.