2D Image Registration in CT Images Using Radial Image Descriptors [chapter]

Franz Graf, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Matthias Schubert, Sebastian Pölsterl, Alexander Cavallaro
2011 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
Registering CT scans in a body atlas is an important technique for aligning and comparing different CT scans. It is also required for navigating automatically to certain regions of a scan or if sub volumes should be identified automatically. Common solutions to this problem employ landmark detectors and interpolation techniques. However, these solutions are often not applicable if the query scan is very small or consists only of a single slice. Therefore, the research community proposed methods
more » ... being independent from landmark detectors which are using imaging techniques to register the slices in a generalized height scale. In this paper, we propose an improved prediction method for registering single slices. Our solution is based on specialized image descriptors and instance-based learning. The experimental evaluation shows that the new method improves accuracy and stability of comparable registration methods by using only a a single CT slice is required for the registration.
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23629-7_74 fatcat:ftg4fcvaivalvnjzyeqacjnrsy