A log-euclidean polyaffine framework for locally rigid or affine registration

  • Authors:
  • Vincent Arsigny;Olivier Commowick;Xavier Pennec;Nicholas Ayache

  • Affiliations:
  • 2004 Route des Lucioles, INRIA Sophia – Epidaure Project, Sophia Antipolis, France;2004 Route des Lucioles, INRIA Sophia – Epidaure Project, Sophia Antipolis, France;2004 Route des Lucioles, INRIA Sophia – Epidaure Project, Sophia Antipolis, France;2004 Route des Lucioles, INRIA Sophia – Epidaure Project, Sophia Antipolis, France

  • Venue:
  • WBIR'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Biomedical Image Registration
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this article, we focus on the parameterization of non-rigid geometrical deformations with a small number of flexible degrees of freedom . In previous work, we proposed a general framework called polyaffine to parameterize deformations with a small number of rigid or affine components, while guaranteeing the invertibility of global deformations. However, this framework lacks some important properties: the inverse of a polyaffine transformation is not polyaffine in general, and the polyaffine fusion of affine components is not invariant with respect to a change of coordinate system. We present here a novel general framework, called Log-Euclidean polyaffine, which overcomes these defects. We also detail a simple algorithm, the Fast Polyaffine Transform, which allows to compute very efficiently Log-Euclidean polyaffine transformations and their inverses on a regular grid. The results presented here on real 3D locally affine registration suggest that our novel framework provides a general and efficient way of fusing local rigid or affine deformations into a global invertible transformation without introducing artifacts, independently of the way local deformations are first estimated.