Joint deformable registration of large EM image volumes: a matrix solver approach.

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arXiv. 2018 Apr 26

Joint deformable registration of large EM image volumes: a matrix solver approach. Saalfeld LabScientific Computing Software

Khairy K, Denisov G, Saalfeld S

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Abstract

Large electron microscopy image datasets for connectomics are typically composed of thousands to millions of partially overlapping two-dimensional images (tiles), which must be registered into a coherent volume prior to further analysis. A common registration strategy is to find matching features between neighboring and overlapping image pairs, followed by a numerical estimation of optimal image deformation using a so-called solver program.
Existing solvers are inadequate for large data volumes, and inefficient for small-scale image registration.
In this work, an efficient and accurate matrix-based solver method is presented. A linear system is constructed that combines minimization of feature-pair square distances with explicit constraints in a regularization term. In absence of reliable priors for regularization, we show how to construct a rigid-model approximation to use as prior. The linear system is solved using available computer programs, whose performance on typical registration tasks we briefly compare, and to which future scale-up is delegated. Our method is applied to the joint alignment of 2.67 million images, with more than 200 million point-pairs and has been used for successfully aligning the first full adult fruit fly brain.

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Joint deformable registration of large EM image volumes: a matrix solver approach.

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