2009 Summer Project Week Spherical Mesh Diffeomorphic Demons Registration

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Key Investigators

• MIT: Thomas Yeo, Polina Goland
• Kitware: Luis Ibanez, Michel Audette

Objective

We are porting to ITK the spherical mesh registration method described in the paper [1]. A framework for supporting Spherical Mesh Registration is being designed and implemented.

Approach, Plan

The Spherical Diffeomorphic Demons method is described in detail in the paper [1].

Our plan for the project includes

1. Implement readers for the surface file format of FreeSurfer
2. Implement a software framework for Mesh Registration
3. Use the QuadEdgeMesh as data structure for representing the spherical meshes.
4. Implement rigid Mesh registration
5. Implement a smoothing filter for scalar data in a Mesh
6. Implement the Diffeomorphic Demons filter for QuadEdgeMeshes.

Progress

The framework for Rigid registration of Spherical Meshes has been implemented. The source code is available in the NAMIC Sandbox directory QuadEdgeMeshRigidRegistration. The code for the Diffeomorphic Demons method is under development. The current version of the source code can be found in the NAMIC Sandbox directory QuadEdgeMeshSphericalDiffeomorphicDemonsRegistration

References

• B.T. Thomas Yeo, Mert R. Sabuncu, Tom Vercauteren, Nicholas Ayache, Bruce Fischl and Polina Golland, pherical Demons: Fast Diffeomorphic Landmark-Free Surface Registration, IEEE TMI,