Research on Preprocessing Algorithm for PET-CT Image Registration.

PET and CT image registration is an important tool of clinical diagnosis of diseases. For PET and CT images, a preprocessing algorithm of medical image registration is proposed in this paper. The algorithm process includes image normalization, CT image adaptive threshold adjustment and automatic extraction of tissues based on morphology, edge detection and statistical analysis theory, and improved PET image interpolation based on physical spacing of pixels. The experiment results indicate that the preprocessing methods proposed in this paper have a great effect on PET and CT image registration research because of the exclusion of redundant information and the improvement of the registration algorithm efficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]