A NEW GLOBAL REGISTRATION APPROACH OF MEDICAL IMAGING USING VECTOR MAPS
In this paper, we introduce a novel global image registration approach using vector distance functions (VDF's). Edges of the source and target objects are used to represent their images. The VDF's of these edges are calculated as an implicit representation of these boundaries. An energy is formulated to measure the differences of these vectors. A variational formulation is considered to estimate the transformation parameters. Promising results in 2D and 3D are demonstrated to show the efficiency of the proposed algorithm.