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. 2012 Dec;16(8):1521-31.
doi: 10.1016/j.media.2012.06.010. Epub 2012 Jul 24.

Supervised quality assessment of medical image registration: application to intra-patient CT lung registration

Sascha E A Muenzing  1 , Bram van Ginneken, Keelin Murphy, Josien P W Pluim
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Supervised quality assessment of medical image registration: application to intra-patient CT lung registration

Sascha E A Muenzing et al. Med Image Anal. 2012 Dec.

Abstract

A novel method for automatic quality assessment of medical image registration is presented. The method is based on supervised learning of local alignment patterns, which are captured by statistical image features at distinctive landmark points. A two-stage classifier cascade, employing an optimal multi-feature model, classifies local alignments into three quality categories: correct, poor or wrong alignment. We establish a reference registration error set as basis for training and testing of the method. It consists of image registrations obtained from different non-rigid registration algorithms and manually established point correspondences of automatically determined landmarks. We employ a set of different classifiers and evaluate the performance of the proposed image features based on the classification performance of corresponding single-feature classifiers. Feature selection is conducted to find an optimal subset of image features and the resulting multi-feature model is validated against the set of single-feature classifiers. We consider the setup generic, however, its application is demonstrated on 51 CT follow-up scan pairs of the lung. On this data, the proposed method performs with an overall classification accuracy of 90%.

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