Medical image segmentation, volume representation and registration using spheres in the geometric algebra framework

Authors:
Rivera-Rovelo Jorge;Bayro-Corrochano Eduardo
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, CINVESTAV Unidad Guadalajara, Av. Científica 1145, Col. El Bajío, Zapopan, Jalisco 45010, Mexico;Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, CINVESTAV Unidad Guadalajara, Av. Científica 1145, Col. El Bajío, Zapopan, Jalisco 45010, Mexico
Venue:
Pattern Recognition
Year:
2007

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Abstract

This paper presents an algorithm to model volumetric data and other one for non-rigid registration of such models using spheres formulated in the geometric algebra framework. The proposed algorithm for modeling, as opposite to the Union of Spheres method, reduces the number of entities (spheres) used to model 3D data. Our proposal is based in marching cubes idea using, however, spheres, while the Union of Spheres uses Delaunay tetrahedrization. The non-rigid registration is accomplished in a deterministic annealing scheme. At the preprocessing stage we segment the objects of interest by a segmentation method based on texture information. This method is embedded in a region growing scheme. As our final application, we present a scheme for surgical object tracking using again geometric algebra techniques.