Rigid Medical Image Registration Based on Genetic Algorithms and Mutual Information

With the variety of medical imaging equipment’s application in the medical process,medical image registration becomes particularly important in the field of medical image processing,which has important clinical diagnostic and therapeutic value. This article describes the matrix conversion method of the rigid registration model, the basic concepts and principles of the mutual information algorithm ,the basic idea of genetic algorithms and algorithm’s flow , and the application of the improved genetic algorithms in practice. The rigid registration of two CT brain bones images uses mutual information as a similarity measure, genetic algorithm as the search strategy and matlab as programming environment. Using the three-point crossover technique to exchange the three parameters in the rigid transformation repeectively to produce new individuals, the genetic algorithm’s local search ability enhanced and the prematurity phenomenon can be reduced through the depth study of the basic genetic algorithm. The experiments show that the registration has high stability and accuracy.