A Unified Feature Registration Method for Brain Mapping

  • Authors:
  • Haili Chui;Lawrence Win;Robert Schultz;James S. Duncan;Anand Rangarajan

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IPMI '01 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper describes the design, implementation and preliminary results of a unified non-rigid feature registration method for the purpose of brain anatomical structure alignment. We combine different types of features together and fuse them into a common point representation. This enables the co-registration of all features using a new non-rigid point matching algorithm. In this way, the spatial interrelationships between different features are directly utilized to improve the registration accuracy. We also conducted a carefully designed synthetic study to compare some anatomical features' ability for non-rigid brain structure alignment. This study allows us to evaluate the relative improvements in registration accuracy when different features are combined.