A novel longitudinal atlas construction framework by groupwise registration of subject image sequences

Shu Liao, Hongjun Jia, Guorong Wu, Dinggang Shen

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    Abstract

    Longitudinal atlas construction is a challenging task in medical image analysis. Given a set of longitudinal images of different subjects, the task is how to construct the unbias longitudinal atlas sequence reflecting the anatomical changes over time. In this paper, a novel longitudinal atlas construction framework is proposed. The main contributions of the proposed method lie in the following aspects: (1) Subject-specific longitudinal information is captured by establishing a robust growth model for each subject. (2) The trajectory constraints are enforced for both subject image sequences and the atlas sequence, and only one transformation is needed for each subject to map its image sequence to the atlas sequence while preserving the temporal correspondence. (3) The longitudinal atlases are estimated by groupwise registration and kernel regression, thus no explicit template is used and the atlases are constructed without introducing bias due to the selection of the explicit template. (4) The proposed method is general, where the number of longitudinal images of each subject and the time points at which the images are taken can be different. The proposed method is evaluated on a longitudinal database and compared with a state-of-the-art longitudinal atlas construction method. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves more consistent spatial-temporal correspondence as well as higher registration accuracy than the compared method.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationInformation Processing in Medical Imaging - 22nd International Conference, IPMI 2011, Proceedings
    Pages283-295
    Number of pages13
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2011
    Event22nd International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging, IPMI 2011 - Kloster Irsee, Germany
    Duration: 2011 Jul 32011 Jul 8

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume6801 LNCS
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Other

    Other22nd International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging, IPMI 2011
    Country/TerritoryGermany
    CityKloster Irsee
    Period11/7/311/7/8

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Theoretical Computer Science
    • General Computer Science

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