Gabor feature-based registration: accurate alignment without fiducial markers

Nestor A. Parra; Carlos A. Parra

doi:10.1117/12.710460

8 March 2007 Gabor feature-based registration: accurate alignment without fiducial markers

Nestor A. Parra, Carlos A. Parra

Proceedings Volume 6512, Medical Imaging 2007: Image Processing; 65122D (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.710460
Event: Medical Imaging, 2007, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Accurate registration of diagnosis and treatment images is a critical factor for the success of radiotherapy. This study presents a feature-based image registration algorithm that uses a branch- and-bound method to search the space of possible transformations, as well as a Hausdorff distance metric to evaluate their quality. This distance is computed in the space of responses to a circular Gabor filter, in which, for each point of interest in both reference and subject images, a vector of complex responses to different Gabor kernels is computed. Each kernel is generated using different frequencies and variances of the Gabor function, which determines correspondent regions in the images to be registered, by virtue of its rotation invariance characteristics. Responses to circular Gabor filters have also been reported in literature as a successful tool for image classification; and in this particular application we utilize them for patient positioning in cranial radiotherapy. For test purposes, we use 2D portal images acquired with an electronic portal imaging device (EPID). Our method presents EPID-EPID registrations errors under 0.2 mm for translations and 0.05 deg for rotations (subpixel accuracy). We are using fiducial marker registration as the ground truth for comparisons. Registration times average 2.70 seconds based on 1400 feature points using a 1.4 GHz processor.

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Nestor A. Parra and Carlos A. Parra "Gabor feature-based registration: accurate alignment without fiducial markers", Proc. SPIE 6512, Medical Imaging 2007: Image Processing, 65122D (8 March 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.710460

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