CN110363797A - A kind of PET and CT method for registering images inhibited based on excessive deformation - Google Patents

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CN110363797A
CN110363797A CN201910634301.2A CN201910634301A CN110363797A CN 110363797 A CN110363797 A CN 110363797A CN 201910634301 A CN201910634301 A CN 201910634301A CN 110363797 A CN110363797 A CN 110363797A
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The present invention relates to Medical Image Registration fields, provide a kind of PET and CT method for registering images inhibited based on excessive deformation.The present invention acquires two-dimensional PE T/CT sequence image first, obtains PET/CT sequence chart image set and pre-processes to it, obtains PET/CT image block training set;3D U-Net convolutional neural networks building PET/CT is then based on pseudo-crystalline lattice, and combines image similarity bound term and excessive deformation that item is inhibited to construct cost function;Then neural network weight parameter is initialized, hyper parameter is set, PET/CT image block training set input PET/CT with pseudo-crystalline lattice and is iterated training to it;PET/CT image to be registered is finally matched into pseudo-crystalline lattice to the PET/CT after input training, the PET image block after generating registration.The present invention can be realized PET/CT elastic registrating, improve registration efficiency and accuracy, reduce the calculating cost inhibited to excessive deformation.

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A kind of PET and CT method for registering images inhibited based on excessive deformation
Technical field
The present invention relates to Medical Image Registration field, more particularly to a kind of PET inhibited based on excessive deformation with CT method for registering images.
Background technique
Medical figure registration plays an important role in many Medical Image Processing tasks.Usually image registration is formulated It is optimization problem to seek spatial alternation, which measures (example by the corresponding substitution in space maximized between image The image intensity correlation being such as registrated between image) it is corresponding come the pixel/voxel established between a pair of of fixation and mobile image.
Position emissron tomography (Positron Emission Computer Tomography, PET) is accelerated using convolution Device generates radioactive isotope 18F, 13N, and the metabolism of human body is participated in after intravenous injection.The high tissue of metabolic rate or lesion, The bright signal of specific hypermetabolism is presented on PET;The low tissue of metabolic rate or lesion are in low metabolism dark signal on PET.It calculates Machine tomoscan (ComputedTomography, CT) be with X-ray beam to human body certain a part by certain thickness level into Row scanning, when x-ray directive tissue, part ray is absorbed by tissue, and part ray passes through human body and is detected organ reception, Signal is generated, accurately image can be positioned.
PET/CT can carry out the same machine image co-registration of function and anatomical structure, be an impressive progress of medical imaging. Multi-modality image registration utilizes the characteristics of various imaging modes, provides complementary information for different images, increases amount of image information, Facilitate the property that lesion is appreciated more fully and the relationship with surrounding anatomical structures, the positioning for clinical diagnosis and treatment provides Effective method.The fusion figure for having both structural information and functional information is obtained by the PET/CT image of two kinds of different modalities of fusion Picture is of great significance for medical image analysis and diagnosis.Since the similitude of image pixel intensities between PET/CT image is lower, lead It is easy to produce excessive deformation after causing registration, so PET/CT registration is a challenging task.
In existing PET and CT method for registering images, it is all based on iteration optimization greatly and is registrated.It is wherein most-often used Method is that registration problems are converted to optimization problem to minimize cost function.Common cost function includes mean square error (MSE), mutual information (MI), normalized mutual information (NMI), normalized crosscorrelation (NCC) and gradient are related (GC).And these phases Like property Measure Indexes directly in pixel scale movement images, and it can not reflect the higher level structure in image.Despite the presence of complete Office's optimization method, such as simulated annealing and genetic algorithm, but they need to sample parameter space comprehensively, and this will lead Cause excessively high calculating cost.The calculating that excessive deformation is inhibited so as to cause existing PET and CT method for registering images it is at high cost and It is low to the efficiency and accuracy of image registration.
Summary of the invention
In view of the problems of the existing technology, the present invention provide it is a kind of based on excessive deformation inhibit PET and CT image match Quasi- method can be realized PET/CT elastic registrating, improve registration efficiency and accuracy, and reduction is calculated as excessive deformation inhibition This.
The technical solution of the present invention is as follows:
A kind of PET and CT method for registering images inhibited based on excessive deformation, which is characterized in that include the following steps:
Step 1: two-dimensional PE T-sequence image, the two-dimensional ct sequence image of m patient of acquisition obtains PET/CT sequence image Collection;
Step 2: PET/CT sequence chart image set being pre-processed, PET/CT image block training set is obtained;The pretreatment Including calculating SUV value and hu value and threshold limit range, adjustment image resolution ratio, generation image block and being normalized;
Step 3: pseudo-crystalline lattice is matched based on 3DU-Net convolutional neural networks building PET/CT;
Step 4: inhibiting item in conjunction with image similarity bound term and excessive deformation, construction PET/CT matches the cost letter of pseudo-crystalline lattice Number;The similarity constraint item is normalized crosscorrelation NCC, the excessive deformation inhibit item be based on displacement vector field element with The penalty term adduction of difference between gauss of distribution function element;
Step 5: the size N criticized in batch processing, regularization term weight λ, maximum is arranged in initialization neural network weight parameter The number of iterations COUNT, e-learning rate, optimizer are decayed tactful using learning rate;
Step 6: matching the input of pseudo-crystalline lattice using PET/CT image block training set as PET/CT, output displacement vector field will Displacement vector field and PET image block are input to space transformer jointly, the PET image block after obtaining registration, according to CT image block Similarity constraint item is obtained with the PET image block after registration, excessive deformation inhibition item is obtained according to displacement vector field, to pass through Cost function updates neural network weight parameter, and carries out backpropagation, is thus iterated training with pseudo-crystalline lattice to PET/CT, Until maximum number of iterations COUNT, the PET/CT after being trained matches pseudo-crystalline lattice;
Step 7: to PET/CT image to be registered to pretreatment described in step 1 is carried out, obtained PET/CT being schemed PET/CT after training as block to input generates the PET image block after being registrated, and visualized in pseudo-crystalline lattice.
The step 2 includes the following steps:
Step 2.1: the SUV value for calculating two-dimensional PE T-sequence image is SUV=PixelsPET×LBM×1000/ injecteddose
The hu value for calculating two-dimensional ct sequence image is Hu=PixelsCT×slopes+intercepts
Wherein, PixelsPETFor the pixel value of PET sequence image, LBM is lean body mass, and injected dose is tracer Injection dosage;PixelsCTFor the pixel value of CT sequence image, slopes is slope, and intercepts is intercept;
Step 2.2: enhancing picture contrast processing being carried out to two-dimensional PE T-sequence image, two-dimensional ct sequence image, adjusts hu Value window width and window level is [a1, b1], SUV value is limited in [a2, b2] in;Wherein, a1、b1、a2、b2It is constant;
Step 2.3: image resolution ratio processing, the two-dimensional ct sequence of adjustment 512 × 512 are adjusted to two-dimensional ct sequence image The size of column image is to size H × W=128 × 128 of two-dimensional PE T-sequence image;
Step 2.4: three-dimensional data is generated respectively to two-dimensional PE T-sequence image, the two-dimensional ct sequence image of i-th of patient [H, W, DPET, i], [H, W, DCT, i], three-dimensional data is transformed into five dimension volume data [N, H, W, Di, C], it is sampling with d pixel Interval cuts five dimension volume datas in z-direction, generates multipair H × W × D size image block, returns to image block One change processing, obtains image block collection, randomly selects l from image block concentration and forms PET/CT figure to PET image block and CT image block As block training set;Wherein, i ∈ { 1,2 ..., m }, DPET, iFor the number of sections of the PET sequence image of i-th of patient, DCT, iIt is The number of sections of the CT sequence image of i patient, DPET, i=DCT, i=Di;N is the size criticized in batch processing, and C is input nerve The port number of network data, C=2.
In the step 2, [a1, b1]=[- 90,300], [a2, b2]=[0,5], d=32, D=64.
In the step 2.4, it is to the formula that image block is normalizedBecome the data of image block The normal distribution that for mean value be 0 and standard deviation is 1;Wherein, x, x*The forward and backward pixel of normalized respectively in image block Point, μ, σ are respectively mean value, the standard deviation of all pixels point in image block.
In the step 3, matching pseudo-crystalline lattice based on 3DU-Net convolutional neural networks building PET/CT includes coding path reconciliation Code path, each paths have 4 resolution levels;The coding path has n1Layer, each layer of the coding path are equal It is the convolutional layer that 3 × 3 × 3, step-length is 2 including a convolution kernel, each convolutional layer is followed by one BN layers and ReLU layers;It is described Decoding paths have n2Layer, each layer of the decoding paths includes that a convolution kernel is the deconvolution that 3 × 3 × 3, step-length is 2 Layer, each warp lamination are followed by one BN layers and ReLU layers;By shortcut, by the layer of equal resolution in coding path Decoding paths are transmitted to, original high-resolution features are provided for decoding paths;The PET/CT matches the last layer of pseudo-crystalline lattice For 3 × 3 × 3 convolutional layer, last output channel number is 3.
In the step 4, inhibit item in conjunction with image similarity bound term and excessive deformation, construction PET/CT is with pseudo-crystalline lattice Cost function is
Wherein, F, M are respectively CT image block, PET image block, DvFor displacement vector field matrix,For mean value be μ, Standard deviation is the gauss of distribution function of θ, and λ is regularization term weight;
For similarity constraint item
Wherein, S is subgraph, and T is template image, and (s, t) is coordinated indexing, and S (s, t) is the pixel value of subgraph, T (s, t) For the pixel value of template image, E (S), E (T) are respectively the average gray value of subgraph, template image;
Inhibit item for excessive deformation
Wherein, i is displacement vector field matrix DvIn element, j is the random number for following Gaussian Profile Han Shuo Yuan, f (i, j, It θ) is penalty term,
The invention has the benefit that
The present invention is based on 3DU-Net convolutional neural networks building PET/CT to match pseudo-crystalline lattice, passes through the nothing based on deep learning End-to-end 3D elastic registrating neural network prediction displacement vector field is supervised, the displacement prediction by voxel is carried out to image subject to registration, And inhibition of the item to image deformation is inhibited as similarity constraint item, in conjunction with excessive deformation using normalized crosscorrelation, construct PET/CT Cost function with pseudo-crystalline lattice is able to solve the lower caused excessive deformation problems of registration of PET/CT image similarity itself, energy It enough realizes PET/CT elastic registrating, improves registration efficiency and accuracy, reduce the calculating cost inhibited to excessive deformation.
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As shown in Figure 1, for the flow chart of the PET inhibited based on excessive deformation and CT method for registering images of the invention.This The PET and CT method for registering images that are inhibited based on excessive deformation of invention, which is characterized in that include the following steps:
Step 1: two-dimensional PE T-sequence image, the two-dimensional ct sequence image of m patient of acquisition obtains PET/CT sequence image Collection.
Step 2: PET/CT sequence chart image set being pre-processed, PET/CT image block training set is obtained;The pretreatment Including calculating SUV value and hu value and threshold limit range, adjustment image resolution ratio, generation image block and being normalized.
The step 2 includes the following steps:
Step 2.1: the SUV value for calculating two-dimensional PE T-sequence image is SUV=PixelsPET×LBM×1000/ injecteddose
The hu value for calculating two-dimensional ct sequence image is Hu=PixelsCT×slopes+intercepts
Wherein, PixelsPETFor the pixel value of PET sequence image, LBM is lean body mass, and injected dose is tracer Injection dosage;PixelsCTFor the pixel value of CT sequence image, slopes is slope, and intercepts is intercept;
Step 2.2: enhancing picture contrast processing being carried out to two-dimensional PE T-sequence image, two-dimensional ct sequence image, adjusts hu Value window width and window level is [a1, b1], SUV value is limited in [a2, b2] in;Wherein, a1、b1、a2、b2It is constant;
Step 2.3: image resolution ratio processing, the two-dimensional ct sequence of adjustment 512 × 512 are adjusted to two-dimensional ct sequence image The size of column image is to size H × W=128 × 128 of two-dimensional PE T-sequence image;
Step 2.4: three-dimensional data is generated respectively to two-dimensional PE T-sequence image, the two-dimensional ct sequence image of i-th of patient [H, W, DPET, i], [H, W, DCT, i], three-dimensional data is transformed into five dimension volume data [N, H, W, Di, C], it is sampling with d pixel Interval cuts five dimension volume datas in z-direction, generates multipair H × W × D size image block, returns to image block One change processing, obtains image block collection, randomly selects l from image block concentration and forms PET/CT figure to PET image block and CT image block As block training set;Wherein, i ∈ { 1,2 ..., m }, DPET, iFor the number of sections of the PET sequence image of i-th of patient, DCT, iIt is The number of sections of the CT sequence image of i patient, DPET, i=DCT, i=Di;N is the size criticized in batch processing, and C is input nerve The port number of network data, C=2.
In the present embodiment, m=176;SUV, Hu the value image of PET, CT after treatment are generated into three-dimensional data respectively There are in ndarray;In the step 2, [a1, b1]=[- 90,300], [a2, b2]=[0,5], d=32, D=64.
For all 176 patients, the l=900 of volume data generation of wherein 141 patients is randomly choosed to SUV, Hu value Image block is as PET/CT image block training set, 259 pairs of SUV, Hu value images for selecting the volume data of wherein 35 patients to generate Block is as verifying collection.
In the step 2.4, it is to the formula that image block is normalizedBecome the data of image block The normal distribution that for mean value be 0 and standard deviation is 1;Wherein, x, x*The forward and backward pixel of normalized respectively in image block Point, μ, σ are respectively mean value, the standard deviation of all pixels point in image block.
Step 3: pseudo-crystalline lattice being matched based on 3DU-Net convolutional neural networks building PET/CT, as shown in Figure 2.
PET/CT of the invention is with the 3D U-Net that pseudo-crystalline lattice includes: that (1) is used to return displacement vector field;(2) it carries out empty Between the component feature space converter (Spatial Transformer) that converts.In the present embodiment, in the step 3, it is based on 3DU- It includes coding path and decoding paths that Net convolutional neural networks, which construct PET/CT with pseudo-crystalline lattice, and each paths have 4 resolutions Rate rank;The coding path has n1Layer, each layer of the coding path include that a convolution kernel is 3 × 3 × 3, step-length For 2 convolutional layer, each convolutional layer is followed by one BN layers and ReLU layers;The decoding paths have n2Layer, the decoding paths Each layer include a convolution kernel be the warp lamination that 3 × 3 × 3, step-length is 2, each warp lamination is followed by a BN Layer and ReLU layers;By shortcut, the layer of equal resolution in coding path is transmitted to decoding paths, is mentioned for decoding paths For original high-resolution features;The convolutional layer that the last layer of the PET/CT with pseudo-crystalline lattice is 3 × 3 × 3, finally output is logical Road number is 3.
Wherein, BN layers are batch normalization layer, and ReLU layers are the linear elementary layer of rectification, and shortcut is jump connection.Most The convolutional layer that later layer is 3 × 3 × 3, reduces the port number of output, and last output channel number is 3 (i.e. expression three sides of x, y, z To).
Step 4: inhibiting item in conjunction with image similarity bound term and excessive deformation, construction PET/CT matches the cost letter of pseudo-crystalline lattice Number;The similarity constraint item is normalized crosscorrelation NCC, the excessive deformation inhibit item be based on displacement vector field element with The penalty term adduction of difference between gauss of distribution function element.
Wherein, " excessive deformation inhibition " is defined based on the deformation degree size of 3D Deformation Field to estimate, and is drawn in cost function Enter " excessive deformation inhibition item " to optimize with pseudo-crystalline lattice.
In the step 4, inhibit item in conjunction with image similarity bound term and excessive deformation, construction PET/CT is with pseudo-crystalline lattice Cost function is
Wherein, F, M are respectively CT image block, PET image block, DvFor displacement vector field matrix,For mean value be μ, Standard deviation is the gauss of distribution function of θ, and λ is regularization term weight;Wherein, F, M are respectively fixed image block, floating image block;
For similarity constraint item
Wherein, S is subgraph, and T is template image, and (s, t) is coordinated indexing, and S (s, t) is the pixel value of subgraph, T (s, t) For the pixel value of template image, E (S), E (T) are respectively the average gray value of subgraph, template image;
Inhibit item for excessive deformation
Wherein, i is displacement vector field matrix DvIn element, j is the random number for following Gaussian Profile Han Shuo Yuan, f (i, j, It θ) is penalty term,In the present embodiment, rule of thumb k is arranged to 2, As | i-j | when > θ, penalty term is | i-j |k, i.e., penalty term is amplified by k power.
Step 5: nerve net is initialized using global variable initialization (global_variables_initializer) The size N=16 criticized in batch processing, regularization term weight λ=0.3, maximum number of iterations COUNT=is arranged in network weight parameter 1000, e-learning rate be 0.001, optimizer Adam, using learning rate decay strategy.
Step 6: matching the input of pseudo-crystalline lattice using PET/CT image block training set as PET/CT, output displacement vector field will Displacement vector field and PET image block are input to space transformer jointly, the PET image block after obtaining registration, according to CT image block Similarity constraint item is obtained with the PET image block after registration, excessive deformation inhibition item is obtained according to displacement vector field, to pass through Cost function updates neural network weight parameter, and carries out backpropagation, is thus iterated training with pseudo-crystalline lattice to PET/CT, Until maximum number of iterations COUNT, the PET/CT after being trained matches pseudo-crystalline lattice.
Wherein, using the PET/CT image block of a pair of 128 × 128 × 64 sizes as the input of 3D U-Net network, output The displacement vector field (128 × 128 × 64 × 3, respectively correspond the displacement in x, y, z direction) of equal resolution size swears displacement Amount field and PET image block are input to space transformer jointly, export the PET image block after being registrated.
Step 7: to PET/CT image to be registered to pretreatment described in step 1 is carried out, obtained PET/CT being schemed PET/CT after training as block to input generates the PET image block after being registrated, and visualized in pseudo-crystalline lattice.
In the present embodiment, the PET inhibited based on excessive deformation and CT method for registering images of the invention are operated in Intel In the Windows10 system environments of core, medical figure registration is carried out based on Python and Tensorflow frame.The present invention uses The regression problem that image registration is converted to displacement vector field based on the image registration algorithm of deep learning, i.e., prediction come from one To the spatial correspondence between the pixel/voxel of image.Image registration is optimized simultaneously by 3D U-Net convolutional neural networks Similarity constraint item and the excessive deformation of displacement vector field between fixed image and floating image pair inhibit item to realize.It is quantitative and Qualitative results show that carrying out 3D PET/CT image registration using method for registering of the invention obtains good effect.Wherein, For the model trained, a pair of new PET/CT volume data is given, can be matched in 10 seconds by primary positive calculate Quasi- result.
Obviously, above-described embodiment is only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, instead of all the embodiments.Above-mentioned implementation Example for explaining only the invention, is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention..Based on the above embodiment, those skilled in the art Member's every other embodiment obtained namely all in spirit herein and original without making creative work Made all modifications, equivalent replacement and improvement etc., are all fallen within the protection domain of application claims within reason.

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1. a kind of PET and CT method for registering images inhibited based on excessive deformation, which is characterized in that include the following steps:
Step 1: two-dimensional PE T-sequence image, the two-dimensional ct sequence image of m patient of acquisition obtains PET/CT sequence chart image set;
Step 2: PET/CT sequence chart image set being pre-processed, PET/CT image block training set is obtained;The pretreatment includes It calculates SUV value and hu value and threshold limit range, adjustment image resolution ratio, generation image block and is normalized;
Step 3: pseudo-crystalline lattice is matched based on 3D U-Net convolutional neural networks building PET/CT;
Step 4: inhibiting item in conjunction with image similarity bound term and excessive deformation, construction PET/CT matches the cost function of pseudo-crystalline lattice; The similarity constraint item is normalized crosscorrelation NCC, and it is based on displacement vector field element and height that the excessive deformation, which inhibits item, The penalty term adduction of difference between this distribution function element;
Step 5: the size N criticized in batch processing, regularization term weight λ, greatest iteration is arranged in initialization neural network weight parameter Number COUNT, e-learning rate, optimizer are decayed tactful using learning rate;
Step 6: matching the input of pseudo-crystalline lattice using PET/CT image block training set as PET/CT, output displacement vector field will be displaced Vector field and PET image block are input to space transformer jointly, and the PET image block after obtaining registration according to CT image block and is matched PET image block after standard obtains similarity constraint item, obtains excessive deformation inhibition item according to displacement vector field, to pass through cost Function updates neural network weight parameter, and carries out backpropagation, is thus iterated training with pseudo-crystalline lattice to PET/CT, until Maximum number of iterations COUNT, the PET/CT after being trained match pseudo-crystalline lattice;
Step 7: to PET/CT image to be registered to pretreatment described in progress step 1, the PET/CT image block that will be obtained To the PET/CT after input training in pseudo-crystalline lattice, the PET image block after being registrated is generated, and visualized.
2. the PET and CT method for registering images according to claim 1 inhibited based on excessive deformation, which is characterized in that institute Step 2 is stated to include the following steps:
Step 2.1: the SUV value for calculating two-dimensional PE T-sequence image is
SUV=PixelsPET×LBM×1000/injected dose
Calculate two-dimensional ct sequence image hu value be
Hu=PixelsCT×slopes+intercepts
Wherein, PixelsPETFor the pixel value of PET sequence image, LBM is lean body mass, and injected dose is tracer injection Dosage;PixelsCTFor the pixel value of CT sequence image, slopes is slope, and intercepts is intercept;
Step 2.2: enhancing picture contrast processing being carried out to two-dimensional PE T-sequence image, two-dimensional ct sequence image, adjusts hu value window Wide window position is [a1, b1], SUV value is limited in [a2, b2] in;Wherein, a1、b1、a2、b2It is constant;
Step 2.3: image resolution ratio processing, the two-dimensional ct sequence chart of adjustment 512 × 512 are adjusted to two-dimensional ct sequence image The size of picture is to size H × W=128 × 128 of two-dimensional PE T-sequence image;
Step 2.4: to two-dimensional PE T-sequence image, the two-dimensional ct sequence image of i-th of patient generate respectively three-dimensional data [H, W, DPET, i], [H, W, DCT, i], three-dimensional data is transformed into five dimension volume data [N, H, W, Di, C], using d pixel as the sampling interval Five dimension volume datas are cut in a z-direction, multipair H × W × D size image block is generated, image block is normalized Processing, obtains image block collection, randomly selects l from image block concentration and forms PET/CT image block to PET image block and CT image block Training set;Wherein, i ∈ { 1,2 ..., m }, DPET, iFor the number of sections of the PET sequence image of i-th of patient, DCT, iIt is i-th The number of sections of the CT sequence image of patient, DPET, i=DCT, i=Di;N is the size criticized in batch processing, and C is input neural network The port number of data, C=2.
3. the PET and CT method for registering images according to claim 2 inhibited based on excessive deformation, which is characterized in that institute It states in step 2, [a1, b1]=[- 90,300], [a2, b2]=[0,5], d=32, D=64.
4. the PET and CT method for registering images according to claim 2 inhibited based on excessive deformation, which is characterized in that institute It states in step 2.4, is to the formula that image block is normalizedMake the data of image block become mean value 0 and The normal distribution that standard deviation is 1;Wherein, x, x*Respectively the forward and backward pixel of normalized, μ, σ are respectively in image block Mean value, the standard deviation of all pixels point in image block.
5. the PET and CT method for registering images according to any one of claim 2 to 4 inhibited based on excessive deformation, Be characterized in that, in the step 3, based on 3D U-Net convolutional neural networks building PET/CT with pseudo-crystalline lattice include coding path and Decoding paths, each paths have 4 resolution levels;The coding path has n1Layer, each layer of the coding path It include a convolution kernel is convolutional layer that 3 × 3 × 3, step-length is 2, each convolutional layer is followed by one BN layers and ReLU layers;Institute Stating decoding paths has n2Layer, each layer of the decoding paths includes that a convolution kernel is the warp that 3 × 3 × 3, step-length is 2 Lamination, each warp lamination are followed by one BN layers and ReLU layers;By shortcut, by equal resolution in coding path Layer is transmitted to decoding paths, and original high-resolution features are provided for decoding paths;The PET/CT matches last of pseudo-crystalline lattice The convolutional layer that layer is 3 × 3 × 3, last output channel number are 3.
6. the PET and CT method for registering images according to claim 5 inhibited based on excessive deformation, which is characterized in that institute It states in step 4, inhibits item in conjunction with image similarity bound term and excessive deformation, cost function of the construction PET/CT with pseudo-crystalline lattice is
Wherein, F, M are respectively CT image block, PET image block, DvFor displacement vector field matrix,It is μ for mean value, standard Difference is the gauss of distribution function of θ, and λ is regularization term weight;
For similarity constraint item
Wherein, S is subgraph, and T is template image, and (s, t) is coordinated indexing, and S (s, t) is the pixel value of subgraph, and T (s, t) is mould The pixel value of plate image, E (S), E (T) are respectively the average gray value of subgraph, template image;
Inhibit item for excessive deformation
Wherein, i is displacement vector field matrix DvIn element, j be follow gauss of distribution functionRandom number, f (i, j, θ) is Penalty term,
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