We formulate and interpret several multi-modal registration methods inthe context of a unified statistical and information theoretic framework. A unified interpretation clarifies the implicit assumptionsof each method yielding a better understanding of their relativestrengths and weaknesses. Additionally, we discuss a generativestatistical model from which we derive a novel analysis tool, the"auto-information function", as a means of assessing and exploiting thecommon spatial dependencies inherent in multi-modal imagery. Weanalytically derive useful properties of the "auto-information" aswell as verify them empirically on multi-modal imagery. Among theuseful aspects of the "auto-information function" is that it canbe computed from imaging modalities independently and it allows one todecompose the search space of registration problems.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/30466 |
| Date | 28 April 2004 |
| Creators | Zollei, Lilla, Fisher, John, Wells, William |
| Source Sets | M.I.T. Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | 21 p., 17309765 bytes, 765629 bytes, application/postscript, application/pdf |
| Relation | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory |
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