Title :
Medical Image Registration Based on Mutual Information Using Kriging Probability Density Estimation
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Beijing Inst. of Technol.
Abstract :
This paper proposes a new approach of kriging estimation (KE) to the problem of probability density estimation, which is critical during the registration of medical images using mutual information (MI). The author proposed that the linear coefficients of kriging interpolation have "probability character" which makes them appropriate to be utilized in probability estimation. KE is a complement of existent probability estimation methods, the experiments provided have proved its efficacy
Keywords :
biomedical MRI; image registration; interpolation; medical image processing; positron emission tomography; probability; statistical analysis; CT-MR images; MR-PET images; kriging interpolation; kriging probability density estimation; medical image registration; mutual information; Biomedical imaging; Computed tomography; Entropy; Focusing; Helium; Histograms; Image registration; Interpolation; Mutual information; Positron emission tomography;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8741-4
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1617130