%0 Conference Proceedings
%F Rousseau03b
%A Rousseau, F.
%A Fablet, R.
%A Barillot, C.
%T Robust Statistical Registration of 3D Ultrasound Images Using Texture Information
%B IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, ICIP'03
%C Barcelona, Spain
%X We investigate a new registration method for ultrasound volumes relying on on a statistical texture-based similarity measure. Texture information is given by spatial Gabor filters and represented by statistical kernel-based distributions. The registration similarity measure is then defined as a probabilistic distance, derived from Bhattacharyya coefficient, between two statistical distributions. Given this similarity measure, parametric ultrasound image registration is stated as a robust minimization issue. We also exploit frequency properties of spatial Gabor filters to propose a multiresolution approach to perform this minimization. We provide a preliminary evaluation of the new registration technique on clinical data
%U http://www.irisa.fr/vista/Papers/2003_icip_rousseau.pdf
%8 September
%D 2003