Mass preserving image registration for lung CT

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This paper presents a mass preserving image registration algorithm for lung CT images. To account for the local change in lung tissue intensity during the breathing cycle, a tissue appearance model based on the principle of preservation of total lung mass is proposed. This model is incorporated into a standard image registration framework with a composition of a global af¿ne and several free-form B-Spline transformations with increasing grid resolution. The proposed mass preserving registration method is compared to registration using the sum of squared intensity differences as a similarity function on four groups of data: 44 pairs of longitudinal inspiratory chest CT scans with small difference in lung volume; 44 pairs of longitudinal inspiratory chest CT scans with large difference in lung volume; 16 pairs of expiratory and inspiratory CT scans; and 5 pairs of images extracted at end exhale and end inhale phases of 4D-CT images. Registration errors, measured as the average distance between vessel tree centerlines in the matched images, are signi¿cantly lower for the proposed mass preserving image registration method in the second, third and fourth group, while there is no statistically signi¿cant difference between the two methods in the ¿rst group. Target registration error, assessed via a set of manually annotated landmarks in the last group, was signi¿cantly smaller for the proposed registration method.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftMedical Image Analysis
Vol/bind16
Udgave nummer4
Sider (fra-til)786-795
Antal sider10
ISSN1361-8415
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2012

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