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Hipwell, J.H.* ; Tanner, C.* ; Crum, W.R.* ; Schnabel, J.A.* ; Hawkes, D.J.*

A new validation method for X-ray mammogram registration algorithms using a projection model of breast X-ray compression.

IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 26, 1190-1200 (2007)
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Establishing spatial correspondence between features visible in X-ray mammograms obtained at different times has great potential to aid assessment and quantitation of change in the breast indicative of malignancy. The literature contains numerous nonrigid registration algorithms developed for this purpose, but existing approaches are flawed by the assumption of inappropriate 2-D transformation models and quantitative estimation of registration accuracy is limited. In this paper, we describe a novel validation method which simulates plausible mammographic compressions of the breast using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) derived finite element model. By projecting the resulting known 3-D displacements into 2-D and generating pseudo-mammograms from these same compressed magnetic resonance (MR) volumes, we can generate convincing images with known 2-D displacements with which to validate a registration algorithm. We illustrate this approach by computing the accuracy for two conventional nonrigid 2-D registration algorithms applied to mammographic test images generated from three patient MR datasets. We show that the accuracy of these algorithms is close to the best achievable using a 2-D one-to-one correspondence model but that new algorithms incorporating more representative transformation models are required to achieve sufficiently accurate registrations for this application. © 2007 IEEE.
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Publication type Article: Journal article
Document type Scientific Article
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Keywords Biomedical X-ray Imaging ; Image Registration ; Mammography ; Modeling ; Validation
ISSN (print) / ISBN 0278-0062
e-ISSN 1558-254X
Journal IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Quellenangaben Volume: 26, Issue: 9, Pages: 1190-1200 Article Number: , Supplement: ,
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Publishing Place New York, NY [u.a.]
Non-patent literature Publications
Reviewing status Peer reviewed
Institute(s) Institute for Machine Learning in Biomed Imaging (IML)