mia-2dmany2one-nonrigid(1) Registration of a series of 2D images

SYNOPSIS

mia-2dmany2one-nonrigid -i <in-file> -o <out-file> [options] <PLUGINS:2dimage/fullcost>

DESCRIPTION

mia-2dmany2one-nonrigid This program registers all images of a conscutively numbered set of images to one common user defined reference.

OPTIONS

File-IO

-i --in-file=(input, required); string
input perfusion data set
-o --out-file=(output, required); string
file name for registered images, numbering and pattern are deducted from the input data

Registration

-O --optimizer=gsl:opt=gd,step=0.1
Optimizer used for minimization
-l --mg-levels=3
multi-resolution levelsmulti-resolution levels
-f --transForm=spline
transformation typetransformation type For supported plugins see PLUGINS:2dimage/transform
-r --ref=-1
reference frame (-1 == use image in the middle)reference frame (-1 == use image in the middle)
-k --skip=0
skip registration of these images at the beginning of the seriesskip registration of these images at the beginning of the series

Help & Info

-V --verbose=warning
verbosity of output, print messages of given level and higher priorities. Supported priorities starting at lowest level are:
info - Low level messages
trace - Function call trace
fail - Report test failures
warning - Warnings
error - Report errors
debug - Debug output
message - Normal messages
fatal - Report only fatal errors
--copyright
print copyright information
-h --help
print this help
-? --usage
print a short help
--version
print the version number and exit

Processing

--threads=-1
Maxiumum number of threads to use for processing,This number should be lower or equal to the number of logical processor cores in the machine. (-1: automatic estimation).Maxiumum number of threads to use for processing,This number should be lower or equal to the number of logical processor cores in the machine. (-1: automatic estimation).

PLUGINS: 1d/splinebc

mirror
Spline interpolation boundary conditions that mirror on the boundary

(no parameters)
repeat
Spline interpolation boundary conditions that repeats the value at the boundary

(no parameters)
zero
Spline interpolation boundary conditions that assumes zero for values outside

(no parameters)

PLUGINS: 1d/splinekernel

bspline
B-spline kernel creation , supported parameters are:

d = 3; int in [0, 5]
Spline degree.

omoms
OMoms-spline kernel creation, supported parameters are:

d = 3; int in [3, 3]
Spline degree.

PLUGINS: 2dimage/cost

lncc
local normalized cross correlation with masking support., supported parameters are:

w = 5; uint in [1, 256]
half width of the window used for evaluating the localized cross correlation.

lsd
Least-Squares Distance measure

(no parameters)
mi
Spline parzen based mutual information., supported parameters are:

cut = 0; float in [0, 40]
Percentage of pixels to cut at high and low intensities to remove outliers.

mbins = 64; uint in [1, 256]
Number of histogram bins used for the moving image.

mkernel = [bspline:d=3]; factory
Spline kernel for moving image parzen hinstogram. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinekernel

rbins = 64; uint in [1, 256]
Number of histogram bins used for the reference image.

rkernel = [bspline:d=0]; factory
Spline kernel for reference image parzen hinstogram. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinekernel

ncc
normalized cross correlation.

(no parameters)
ngf
This function evaluates the image similarity based on normalized gradient fields. Various evaluation kernels are availabe., supported parameters are:

eval = ds; dict
plugin subtype. Supported values are:
sq - square of difference
ds - square of scaled difference
dot - scalar product kernel
cross - cross product kernel

ssd
2D imaga cost: sum of squared differences, supported parameters are:

autothresh = 0; float in [0, 1000]
Use automatic masking of the moving image by only takeing intensity values into accound that are larger than the given threshold.

norm = 0; bool
Set whether the metric should be normalized by the number of image pixels.

ssd-automask
2D image cost: sum of squared differences, with automasking based on given thresholds, supported parameters are:

rthresh = 0; double
Threshold intensity value for reference image.

sthresh = 0; double
Threshold intensity value for source image.

PLUGINS: 2dimage/fullcost

image
Generalized image similarity cost function that also handles multi-resolution processing. The actual similarity measure is given es extra parameter., supported parameters are:

cost = ssd; factory
Cost function kernel. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:2dimage/cost

debug = 0; bool
Save intermediate resuts for debugging.

ref =(input, string)
Reference image.

src =(input, string)
Study image.

weight = 1; float
weight of cost function.

labelimage
Similarity cost function that maps labels of two images and handles label-preserving multi-resolution processing., supported parameters are:

debug = 0; int in [0, 1]
write the distance transforms to a 3D image.

maxlabel = 256; int in [2, 32000]
maximum number of labels to consider.

ref =(input, string)
Reference image.

src =(input, string)
Study image.

weight = 1; float
weight of cost function.

maskedimage
Generalized masked image similarity cost function that also handles multi-resolution processing. The provided masks should be densly filled regions in multi-resolution procesing because otherwise the mask information may get lost when downscaling the image. The reference mask and the transformed mask of the study image are combined by binary AND. The actual similarity measure is given es extra parameter., supported parameters are:

cost = ssd; factory
Cost function kernel. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:2dimage/maskedcost

ref =(input, string)
Reference image.

ref-mask =(input, string)
Reference image mask (binary).

src =(input, string)
Study image.

src-mask =(input, string)
Study image mask (binary).

weight = 1; float
weight of cost function.

PLUGINS: 2dimage/io

bmp
BMP 2D-image input/output support

Recognized file extensions: .BMP, .bmp

 
Supported element types:
binary data, unsigned 8 bit, unsigned 16 bit

 
datapool
Virtual IO to and from the internal data pool

Recognized file extensions: .@

 
dicom
2D image io for DICOM

Recognized file extensions: .DCM, .dcm

 
Supported element types:
signed 16 bit, unsigned 16 bit

 
exr
a 2dimage io plugin for OpenEXR images

Recognized file extensions: .EXR, .exr

 
Supported element types:
unsigned 32 bit, floating point 32 bit

 
jpg
a 2dimage io plugin for jpeg gray scale images

Recognized file extensions: .JPEG, .JPG, .jpeg, .jpg

 
Supported element types:
unsigned 8 bit

 
png
a 2dimage io plugin for png images

Recognized file extensions: .PNG, .png

 
Supported element types:
binary data, unsigned 8 bit, unsigned 16 bit

 
raw
RAW 2D-image output support

Recognized file extensions: .RAW, .raw

 
Supported element types:
binary data, signed 8 bit, unsigned 8 bit, signed 16 bit, unsigned 16 bit, signed 32 bit, unsigned 32 bit, floating point 32 bit, floating point 64 bit

 
tif
TIFF 2D-image input/output support

Recognized file extensions: .TIF, .TIFF, .tif, .tiff

 
Supported element types:
binary data, unsigned 8 bit, unsigned 16 bit, unsigned 32 bit

 
vista
a 2dimage io plugin for vista images

Recognized file extensions: .V, .VISTA, .v, .vista

 
Supported element types:
binary data, signed 8 bit, unsigned 8 bit, signed 16 bit, unsigned 16 bit, signed 32 bit, unsigned 32 bit, floating point 32 bit, floating point 64 bit

 

PLUGINS: 2dimage/maskedcost

lncc
local normalized cross correlation with masking support., supported parameters are:

w = 5; uint in [1, 256]
half width of the window used for evaluating the localized cross correlation.

mi
Spline parzen based mutual information with masking., supported parameters are:

cut = 0; float in [0, 40]
Percentage of pixels to cut at high and low intensities to remove outliers.

mbins = 64; uint in [1, 256]
Number of histogram bins used for the moving image.

mkernel = [bspline:d=3]; factory
Spline kernel for moving image parzen hinstogram. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinekernel

rbins = 64; uint in [1, 256]
Number of histogram bins used for the reference image.

rkernel = [bspline:d=0]; factory
Spline kernel for reference image parzen hinstogram. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinekernel

ncc
normalized cross correlation with masking support.

(no parameters)
ssd
Sum of squared differences with masking.

(no parameters)

PLUGINS: 2dimage/transform

affine
Affine transformation (six degrees of freedom)., supported parameters are:

imgboundary = mirror; factory
image interpolation boundary conditions. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinebc

imgkernel = [bspline:d=3]; factory
image interpolator kernel. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinekernel

rigid
Rigid transformations (i.e. rotation and translation, three degrees of freedom)., supported parameters are:

imgboundary = mirror; factory
image interpolation boundary conditions. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinebc

imgkernel = [bspline:d=3]; factory
image interpolator kernel. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinekernel

rot-center = [[0,0]]; 2dfvector
Relative rotation center, i.e. <0.5,0.5> corresponds to the center of the support rectangle.

rotation
Rotation transformations (i.e. rotation about a given center, one degree of freedom)., supported parameters are:

imgboundary = mirror; factory
image interpolation boundary conditions. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinebc

imgkernel = [bspline:d=3]; factory
image interpolator kernel. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinekernel

rot-center = [[0,0]]; 2dfvector
Relative rotation center, i.e. <0.5,0.5> corresponds to the center of the support rectangle.

spline
Free-form transformation that can be described by a set of B-spline coefficients and an underlying B-spline kernel., supported parameters are:

anisorate = [[0,0]]; 2dfvector
anisotropic coefficient rate in pixels, nonpositive values will be overwritten by the 'rate' value..

imgboundary = mirror; factory
image interpolation boundary conditions. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinebc

imgkernel = [bspline:d=3]; factory
image interpolator kernel. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinekernel

kernel = [bspline:d=3]; factory
transformation spline kernel.. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinekernel

penalty = ; factory
Transformation penalty term. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:2dtransform/splinepenalty

rate = 10; float in [1, inf)
isotropic coefficient rate in pixels.

translate
Translation only (two degrees of freedom), supported parameters are:

imgboundary = mirror; factory
image interpolation boundary conditions. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinebc

imgkernel = [bspline:d=3]; factory
image interpolator kernel. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinekernel

vf
This plug-in implements a transformation that defines a translation for each point of the grid defining the domain of the transformation., supported parameters are:

imgboundary = mirror; factory
image interpolation boundary conditions. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinebc

imgkernel = [bspline:d=3]; factory
image interpolator kernel. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinekernel

PLUGINS: 2dtransform/splinepenalty

divcurl
divcurl penalty on the transformation, supported parameters are:

curl = 1; float in [0, inf)
penalty weight on curl.

div = 1; float in [0, inf)
penalty weight on divergence.

norm = 0; bool
Set to 1 if the penalty should be normalized with respect to the image size.

weight = 1; float in (0, inf)
weight of penalty energy.

EXAMPLE

Register the image series given by images 'inputXXXX.png' to reference image 30. Skip two images at the beginning and using mutual information as cost function, and penalize the transformation by divcurl with weight 5. Store the result in 'registeredXXXX.png'.
mia-2dmany2one-nonrigid -i input0000.png -o registered%04d.png -k 2 -r 30 image:cost=mi divcurl:weight=5

AUTHOR(s)

Gert Wollny

COPYRIGHT

This software is Copyright (c) 1999-2015 Leipzig, Germany and Madrid, Spain. It comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY and you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3 (or later). For more information run the program with the option '--copyright'.