Robust Image Registration Based on Mutual Information Measure

Witold Kosiński, Paweł Michalak, Piotr Gut

Faculty of Computer Science, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warszawa, Poland.

DOI: 10.4236/jsip.2012.32023                

Abstract

A new implementation of the image registration algorithm based on the mutual information is presented for the case of medical images. The registration is achieved if the maximum of the mutual information is attained. In this maximization process optimal values of five parameters of an affine transformation are searched.

Keywords

Image Registration; Mutual Information; Entropy; Affine Transformation; Medical Images

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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