title: Fast rigid registration in radiation therapy.
abstract: Based on a stochastic mutual information type matching and RPROP as stochastic optimizer, an interactive image-based registration of a CT volume onto two 2D images provided by a megavoltage system is presented. The matching process is based on semi-automatic pre-segmentation, an approximate 2D-2D matching with precomputed virtual projections (DRRs) followed by an accurate 3D-2D matching step. Our sample-based approach requires only a fraction of computed DRRs for 3D-2D. A simultaneous computation of the DRR rays and their perturbations in 6 dimensions speeds up the rendering process by a factor of 6.8. The complete registration process takes 5.6 +/- 2.3 seconds on a 3 GHz Pentium IV PC, being the fastest non-parallel approach for this sort of application the authors are aware of.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Computational Medicine, Universities Mannheim and Heidelberg, Germany. ulrich.mueller@ti.uni-mannheim.de
authors.forename: Ulrich
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: Jürgen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hesser
authors.forename: Cornelia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Walter
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dobler
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lohr
authors.forename: Frederik
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wenz
mesh_terms: D003626:Data Display; D005858:Germany; D011881:Radiotherapy, Computer-Assisted; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed