Multimodal Medical Image Registration Based on a Hybrid Optimization Strategy

Abstract

Image registration is a crucial task in medical applications and is perceived as an optimization problem which has an important interest in clinical diagnosis. In this work, we propose an optimization strategy based on a specific design of genetic algorithm combined with the gradient descent optimizer within multi-resolution scheme. The performance of the proposed method was tested and evaluated on real multimodal registration scenarios from the Retrospective Image Registration Evaluation (RIR) database. Our method results were compared with those of existing registration methods, they are accurate and effective.