title: MR/CT multimodal registration of short-axis slices in CT volumes.
abstract: This paper deals with the registration of Magnetic Resonance (MR) and Computerized Tomography (CT) cardiac images. We use a multimodal iconic algorithm based on the maximisation of the mutual information of the joint histogram of two images. We apply it to the registration of MR and CT cardiac images. The purpose is to determine in a (3D+t) CT data volume, short-axis slices that correspond to the (2D+t) short-axis MR slices, acquired on the same patient. The couples of images should be similar according to their spatial position, orientation and cardiac cycle phase. We used the Powell's direction set optimization method for the maximisation of the mutual information, which gives good results with an appropriate initialization.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Images, Signaux et Systèmes Intelligents of Université Paris XII, 61 avenue du Général de Gaulle, 94010 Créteil cedex, France. chenoune@univ-paris12.fr
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chenoune
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bouaoune
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Deléchelle
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Petit
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Garot
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rahmouni
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D009200:Myocardial Contraction; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed