Social Spider Optimization Algorithm in Multimodal Medical Image Registration

Medical image registration plays an important role in many clinical applications, including the detection and diagnosis of diseases, planning of therapy, guidance of interventions. Multimodal medical image registration is the process of overlapping two or more images taken from the same scene by different modalities and different sensors. Intensity-based methods are widely used in multimodal medical image registration, these techniques register different modality images that have the same content by optimal transformation. The estimation of the optimal transformation requires the optimization of a similarity metric between the images. Recently, various optimization algorithms have been presented that the selection of appropriate optimization algorithms is very important in determining the optimal transformation parameter. The Social Spider Optimization (SSO) algorithm is one of the meta-heuristic methods that prevents premature convergence. In this paper, medical image registration technique is suggested based on the SSO algorithm. The Mutual Information (MI), Normalization of Mutual Information (NMI), and Sum of Squared Differences (SSD) are used separately as cost function (objective function) and the performance of each of these functions is checked in multimodal medical image registration. The simulation results on Brain Web data set affirm the suggested method outperforms classical registration methods in terms of convergence rate, execution time.

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image registration