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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
A Memetic Search Scheme for Robust Registration of Diffusion-Weighted MR Images
Authors : Jan Hering, Ivo Wolf, Tawfik Moher Alsady, Hans-Peter Meinzer, Klaus Maier-Hein
Published in: Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2015
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Effective image-based artifact correction is an essential step in the application of higher order models in diffusion MRI. Most approaches rely on some kind of retrospective registration, which becomes increasingly challenging in the realm of high b-values and low signal-tonoise ratio (SNR), rendering standard correction schemes more and more ineffective. We propose a novel optimization scheme based on memetic search that allows for simultaneous exploitation of different signal intensity relationships between the images, leading to more robust registration results. We demonstrate the increased robustness and efficacy of our method on simulated as well as in-vivo datasets. The median TRE for an affine registration of
b
= 3000 s/mm
2
acquisitions could be reduced from > 5mm for a standard correction scheme to < 1mm using our approach. In-vivo bootstrapping experiments revealed increased precision in all tensor-derived quantities.