Image registration

Image registration is the process of transforming different sets of data into one coordinate system. Registration is necessary in order to be able to compare or integrate the data obtained from different sensors/imaging modalities, at different times, from different view points, etc. . Registration can be based on correspondence established between the landmarks or feature points. Alternatively, some similarity/distance metric is established between the image intensity maps to navigate the registration process.

Synonyms
Image alignment

FNIRT

Component
Description

Non linear registration intensity based for MRI brain exams. To be applied after FLIRT

has topic
Magnetic resonance imaging
has function
Image registration
Deformable registration
a brain mri

FMRIB's Linear Image Registration Tool FLIRT

Component
Description

FLIRT (FMRIB's Linear Image Registration Tool) is a fully automated robust and accurate tool for linear (affine) intra- and inter-modal brain image registration.

FLIRT comes with a main GUI as well as three supporting guis:

  • ApplyXFM - for applying saved transformations and changing FOVs
  • InvertXFM - for inverting saved transformations
  • ConcatXFM - for concatenating saved transformations
has topic
Magnetic resonance imaging
has function
Image registration
Linear transformation

simpleITK

Collection
Description

SimpleITK provides a simplified interface to ITK in a variety of languages. A user can either download pre-built binaries, if they are available for the desired platform and language, or SimpleITK can be built from the source code. Currently, Python binaries are available on Microsoft Windows, GNU Linux and Mac OS X. C# and Java binaries are available for Windows. We are also working towards supporting R packaging.

has topic
Bioimage informatics
has function
Image registration
Image analysis
Image segmentation
Data handling
Image visualisation
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pystackreg

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Description

Python/C++ port of the ImageJ extension TurboReg/StackReg written by Philippe Thevenaz/EPFL.

A python extension for the automatic alignment of a source image or a stack (movie) to a target image/reference frame.

has topic
Electron microscopy
Fluorescence microscopy
has function
Alignment construction
Image registration
Affine registration
Rigid registration
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Align slices in stack

Component
Description

Align_slices in stack utilized the template matching function cvMatch_Template to do slice registration(alignment) based on a selected landmark.
This function will try to find the landmark or the most similar image pattern in every slice and translate each slice so that the landmark pattern will be the same position throughout the whole stack. It could be used to fix the drift of a time-lapse image stacks.

Source code: link

Input data: image stack
output data: image stack

has function
Image registration
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