Generalization of deformable registration in riemannian sobolev spaces

  • Authors:
  • Darko Zikic;Maximilian Baust;Ali Kamen;Nassir Navab

  • Affiliations:
  • TU München, Germany;TU München, Germany;Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ;TU München, Germany

  • Venue:
  • MICCAI'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention: Part II
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this work we discuss the generalized treatment of the deformable registration problem in Sobolev spaces. We extend previous approaches in two points: 1) by employing a general energy model which includes a regularization term, and 2) by changing the notion of distance in the Sobolev space by problem-dependent Riemannian metrics. The actual choice of the metric is such that it has a preconditioning effect on the problem, it is applicable to arbitrary similarity measures, and features a simple implementation. The experiments demonstrate an improvement in convergence and runtime by several orders of magnitude in comparison to semi-implicit gradient flows in L2. This translates to increased accuracy in practical scenarios. Furthermore, the proposed generalization establishes a theoretical link between gradient flow in Sobolev spaces and elastic registration methods.