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Non-rigid Registration of Medical Image Data with Incomplete Information
Authors: O. V. Museyko, G. Leugering, P. Hastreiter
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The problem of non-rigid registration of images, where certain parts are missing, is considered in the context of pre- and intraoperative or damaged data. A variational formulation of the problem is proposed such that a counterpart of the missing data can be restored in a template image along with a corresponding registration transformation between the images. The problem is a registrational variant of a free-discontinuity Mumford-Shah segmentation problem with the unknown discontinuity set representing the boundary of missing data; thus, no preliminary segmentation is needed to detect the missing information. An approximation of the free-discontinuity problem by an Ambrosio-Tortorelli-type approximation is used to compute the numerical solutions. Experiments with 2D examples demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed approach.