title: Optimization of mutual information for multiresolution image registration.
abstract: We propose a new method for the intermodal registration of images using a criterion known as mutual information. Our main contribution is an optimizer that we specifically designed for this criterion. We show that this new optimizer is well adapted to a multiresolution approach because it typically converges in fewer criterion evaluations than other optimizers. We have built a multiresolution image pyramid, along with an interpolation process, an optimizer, and the criterion itself, around the unifying concept of spline-processing. This ensures coherence in the way we model data and yields good performance. We have tested our approach in a variety of experimental conditions and report excellent results. We claim an accuracy of about a hundredth of a pixel under ideal conditions. We are also robust since the accuracy is still about a tenth of a pixel under very noisy conditions. In addition, a blind evaluation of our results compares very favorably to the work of several other researchers.
authors.affiliation: Biomedical Imaging Group, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. philippe.thevenaz@epfl.ch
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Thévenaz
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Unser