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Systems and methods for 2D3D registration of apply MR volumes and X-ray images using DRR techniques. A bone classifier is trained from co-registered UTE1, UTE2 and CT prior images. Dual-echo MR UTE1 and UTE2 images are acquired from a patient. The bone structure of the patient is classified and a labeled segmentation is generated. A DRR image is generated from the labeled segmentation and is registered with an X-ray image of the patient. The registration methods are implemented on a processor based system.
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A method and system for improving the quality of composing image volumes using deformable registration, and a gradual elastic morphing to create a seamless whole body volume image from several component volumes from a 3D medical imager.
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Methods and a system to unify reconstruction and motion estimation steps in first pass cardiac perfusion MRI include a global objective function that meets data consistency, spatial smoothness, motion and contrast dynamics constraints. The global objective decomposed into simpler sub-problems which include low pass filtering of a deformed object, TV shrinkage, analytical Fourier replacement and an l2 minimizing problem. A registration tool based on the local cross-correlation similarity measure and enabled to perform both rigid and flexile deformations, is applied. Registration parameters are tuned by rigid, semi rigid and flexible models at different stages of iterations. A system to perform the methods is also disclosed.
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A method and system for registering a first image of, for example, a liver and a second image of the liver being contrast-enhanced comprises: deriving a statistical similarity measure between images; deriving a smooth divergence-free vector field derived from a gradient of the statistical similarity measure; and integrating the vector field for providing a fluid-based algorithm including a volume-preserving constraint for a transformation for registering the images.
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A method of verifying a registration of a digital image includes receiving a reference image and a moving image registered to the reference image representing the same object, selecting one or more landmarks in the images, defining a neighborhood in the domain of each image near each selected landmark, extracting feature sets from the neighborhoods for the reference image and the registered moving image, calculating a total quality measure of the registration of the moving image from a distance metric applied to the feature sets extracted from the neighborhoods of the reference image and the registered moving image, comparing the total quality measure to a threshold determined from a reference atlas for the object represented in the image, and determining whether to accept or reject the registration of the moving image based on the comparison result.
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A method of aligning image having the steps of obtaining a first image, the first image having a corresponding first data set, obtaining a second image, the second having a corresponding second data set; learning a joint intensity distribution from a pair of prealigned images, and aligning the first image and the second image by computing Earth Mover's Distance between their observed joint intensity distribution and the learned joint intensity distribution.
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A method for multimodal image registration includes providing a pair of images acquired from differing imaging modalities, defining an intensity correction function that corrects the intensities of a first image in terms of the intensities of the second image, defining a registration transformation function that registers the second image with the first image, wherein said intensity correction function and transformation function are functions of a plurality of parameters, obtaining corrections to the plurality of parameters by minimizing an energy functional of a square difference of the intensity corrected first image and the registration transformed second image, and updating the intensity correction function and the registration transformation function based on the corrected plurality of parameters.
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A method for motion compensation between first and second images in a temporal sequence includes processing the first and second images in a reduction process for providing respective reduced resolution first and second images; deriving respective first and second feature maps from the respective reduced resolution first and second images, the feature maps including deriving the respective Laplacian of image data in the respective reduced resolution first and second images; deriving a displacement field by processing the first and second feature maps in accordance with a registration algorithm, the registration algorithm comprising solving, for each picture element or voxel, a local Gaussian weighted least mean square problem so as to derive respective vectors forming the displacement field; and warping the second image with the displacement field.
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A method of registering two images using a graphics processing unit includes providing a pair of images with a first and second image, calculating a gradient of the second image, initializing a displacement field on the grid point domain of the pair of images, generating textures for the first image, the second image, the gradient, and the displacement field, and loading said textures into the graphics processing unit. A pixel buffer is created and initialized with the texture containing the displacement field. The displacement field is updated from the first image, the second image, and the gradient for one or more iterations in one or more rendering passes performed by the graphics processing unit.
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An exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a method of registering images. The method includes: for each image, determining an optimum intensity threshold set from a plurality of intensity threshold sets that maximizes a variance between classes of each set, segmenting each image using the corresponding determined optimum intensity threshold set, generating mutual information from a joint histogram of at least two of the segmented images, and registering the at least two images using the mutual information. The joint histogram may be generated using a geometry shader of a graphical processing unit.