Zhang Jiulou, Li Chunli, Feng Qianjin, Chen Wufan, Yang Wei. Coherent point drift registration combined with image feature and its application[J]. Journal of Image and Graphics, 2012, 17(4): 546-552. DOI: 10.11834/jig.20120413.
Coherent point drift registration combined with image feature and its application
A key step of constructing an active appearance model is acquiring a set of appropriate training shapes with well-defined correspondences. In this paper
we introduce a new point correspondence method (FB-CPD)
which can improve the accuracy of the coherent point drift (CPD) by using the image feature information. The objective function of the proposed method is defined by both of the geometric spatial information and the image feature information. The original Gaussian mixture model in the CPD is modified according to the image feature of the points. FB-CPD is tested on the three-dimensioral prostate and liver point sets through the simulation experiments. The registration error can be reduced efficiently by FB-CPD. Moreover
the active appearance model constructed by FB-CPD can obtain fine segmentation
in three-dimensioral CT prostate images. Compared with the original CPD
the overlap ratio of voxels was improved from 88.7% to 90.2% by FB-CPD.