Polyrigid and Polyaffine Transformations: A New Class of Diffeomorphisms for Locally Rigid or Affine Registration

We introduce a novel family of geometrical transformations for the non-rigid registration of medical images, called polyrigid and polyaffine. These transformations have nice mathematical properties, including differentiability and invertibility (i.e diffeomorphism). They are parameterized by a small number of intuitive parameters which allow to recover locally rigid and locally affine deformations often encountered in medical imagery. These transformations are a nice alternative to classical B-Spline transformations (which do not guaranty invertibility). Preliminary experiments on synthetic and real images already illustrate the potentialities and good properties of this approach.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: MICCAI
• Authors: Vincent Arsigny, Xavier Pennec, Nicholas Ayache
• Keywords: Classical B-spline Transformations, Geometrical Transformations, Medical Imaging, MICCAI 2003, Nice Mathematical Properties