Registration, matching, and data fusion in 2D/3D medical imaging: Application to DSA and MRA

Abstract

This paper deals with a new approach of registration in multimodal imaging. Modalities involved are Digital Subtracted Angiography (DSA, 2D) and Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA, 3D). Our approach is an hybrid one, mixing feature and intensity based approaches. This approach is based on the extraction of a anatomical referential common to both MRA and DSA. This step appears to be the "geometric-like" aspect. Then, a high level optimization scheme gives the best registration, using an iconic similarity measure. Several ways of matching planar and tomographic imaging are proposed through superimposition, point to point matching or 3D data fusion. The results obtained prove the methods efficiency in a clinical context. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003.