Spline Pyramids for Inter-Modal Image Registration Using Mutual Information

We propose a new optimizer for multiresolution image registration. It is adapted to a criterion known as mutual information and is well suited to inter-modality. Our iteration strategy is inspired by the Marquardt-Levenberg algorithm, even though the underlying problem is not least-squares. We develop a framework based on a continuous polynomial spline representation of images. Together with the use of Parzen histogram estimates, it allows for...