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mia-2dmyoperiodic-nonrigid(1) General Commands Manual mia-2dmyoperiodic-nonrigid(1)

NAME

('mia\-2dmyoperiodic\-nonrigid',) - Run a registration of a series of 2D images.

SYNOPSIS

mia-2dmyoperiodic-nonrigid -i <in-file> -o <out-file> [options]

DESCRIPTION

mia-2dmyoperiodic-nonrigid This program runs the non-rigid registration of an perfusion image series preferable acquired letting the patient breath freely. The registration algorithm implementes G. Wollny, M-J Ledesma-Cabryo, P.Kellman, and A.Santos, "Exploiting Quasiperiodicity in Motion Correction of Free-Breathing," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 29(8), 2010

OPTIONS

File-IO

-i --in-file=(input, required); string
input perfusion data set

-o --out-file=(output, required); string
output perfusion data set

-r --registered=reg
file name base for registered fiels

--save-references
Save synthetic references to files refXXXX.v

Preconditions

-k --skip=0
Skip images at the begin of the series

--max-candidates=20
maximum number of candidates for global reference image

-S --cost-series=image:cost=[ngf:eval=ds]
Const function to use for the analysis of the series For supported plugins see PLUGINS:2dimage/fullcost
--ref-idx=
save reference index number to this file

-R --global-reference=-1
save reference index number to this file

-D --max-subset-delta=0
Maximum delta between two elements of the prealigned subset

Registration

-O --optimizer=gsl:opt=gd,step=0.01
Optimizer used for minimization For supported plugins see PLUGINS:minimizer/singlecost
--refiner=
optimizer used for additional minimization For supported plugins see PLUGINS:minimizer/singlecost
-l --mr-levels=3
multi-resolution levels

-f --transForm=spline:rate=16,penalty=[divcurl:weight=0.01]
transformation type For supported plugins see PLUGINS:2dimage/transform
-1 --cost-subset=image:cost=[ngf:eval=ds]
Cost function for registration during the subset registration For supported plugins see PLUGINS:2dimage/fullcost
-2 --cost-final=image:cost=ssd
Cost function for registration during the final registration For supported plugins see PLUGINS:2dimage/fullcost

Help & Info

-V --verbose=warning
verbosity of output, print messages of given level and higher priorities. Supported priorities starting at lowest level are:

info ‐ Low level messages
trace ‐ Function call trace
fail ‐ Report test failures
warning ‐ Warnings
error ‐ Report errors
debug ‐ Debug output
message ‐ Normal messages
fatal ‐ Report only fatal errors
--copyright
print copyright information

-h --help
print this help

-? --usage
print a short help

--version
print the version number and exit

Processing

--threads=-1
Maxiumum number of threads to use for processing,This number should be lower or equal to the number of logical processor cores in the machine. (-1: automatic estimation).

PLUGINS: 1d/splinebc

mirror
Spline interpolation boundary conditions that mirror on the boundary

(no parameters)
repeat
Spline interpolation boundary conditions that repeats the value at the boundary

(no parameters)
zero
Spline interpolation boundary conditions that assumes zero for values outside

(no parameters)

PLUGINS: 1d/splinekernel

bspline
B-spline kernel creation , supported parameters are:

d = 3; int in [0, 5]
Spline degree.

omoms
OMoms-spline kernel creation, supported parameters are:

d = 3; int in [3, 3]
Spline degree.

PLUGINS: 2dimage/cost

lncc
local normalized cross correlation with masking support., supported parameters are:

w = 5; uint in [1, 256]
half width of the window used for evaluating the localized cross correlation.

lsd
Least-Squares Distance measure

(no parameters)
mi
Spline parzen based mutual information., supported parameters are:

cut = 0; float in [0, 40]
Percentage of pixels to cut at high and low intensities to remove outliers.

mbins = 64; uint in [1, 256]
Number of histogram bins used for the moving image.

mkernel = [bspline:d=3]; factory
Spline kernel for moving image parzen hinstogram. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinekernel

rbins = 64; uint in [1, 256]
Number of histogram bins used for the reference image.

rkernel = [bspline:d=0]; factory
Spline kernel for reference image parzen hinstogram. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinekernel

ncc
normalized cross correlation.

(no parameters)
ngf
This function evaluates the image similarity based on normalized gradient fields. Various evaluation kernels are available., supported parameters are:

eval = ds; dict
plugin subtype. Supported values are:
sq ‐ square of difference
ds ‐ square of scaled difference
dot ‐ scalar product kernel
cross ‐ cross product kernel

ssd
2D imaga cost: sum of squared differences, supported parameters are:

autothresh = 0; float in [0, 1000]
Use automatic masking of the moving image by only takeing intensity values into accound that are larger than the given threshold.

norm = 0; bool
Set whether the metric should be normalized by the number of image pixels.

ssd-automask
2D image cost: sum of squared differences, with automasking based on given thresholds, supported parameters are:

rthresh = 0; double
Threshold intensity value for reference image.

sthresh = 0; double
Threshold intensity value for source image.

PLUGINS: 2dimage/fullcost

image
Generalized image similarity cost function that also handles multi-resolution processing. The actual similarity measure is given es extra parameter., supported parameters are:

cost = ssd; factory
Cost function kernel. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:2dimage/cost

debug = 0; bool
Save intermediate resuts for debugging.

ref =(input, io)
Reference image. For supported file types see PLUGINS:2dimage/io

src =(input, io)
Study image. For supported file types see PLUGINS:2dimage/io

weight = 1; float
weight of cost function.

labelimage
Similarity cost function that maps labels of two images and handles label-preserving multi-resolution processing., supported parameters are:

debug = 0; int in [0, 1]
write the distance transforms to a 3D image.

maxlabel = 256; int in [2, 32000]
maximum number of labels to consider.

ref =(input, io)
Reference image. For supported file types see PLUGINS:2dimage/io

src =(input, io)
Study image. For supported file types see PLUGINS:2dimage/io

weight = 1; float
weight of cost function.

maskedimage
Generalized masked image similarity cost function that also handles multi-resolution processing. The provided masks should be densly filled regions in multi-resolution procesing because otherwise the mask information may get lost when downscaling the image. The reference mask and the transformed mask of the study image are combined by binary AND. The actual similarity measure is given es extra parameter., supported parameters are:

cost = ssd; factory
Cost function kernel. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:2dimage/maskedcost

ref =(input, io)
Reference image. For supported file types see PLUGINS:2dimage/io

ref-mask =(input, io)
Reference image mask (binary). For supported file types see PLUGINS:2dimage/io

src =(input, io)
Study image. For supported file types see PLUGINS:2dimage/io

src-mask =(input, io)
Study image mask (binary). For supported file types see PLUGINS:2dimage/io

weight = 1; float
weight of cost function.

PLUGINS: 2dimage/io

bmp
BMP 2D-image input/output support. The plug-in supports reading and writing of binary images and 8-bit gray scale images. read-only support is provided for 4-bit gray scale images. The color table is ignored and the pixel values are taken as literal gray scale values.

('Recognized file extensions: ', '.BMP, .bmp')

Supported element types:
binary data, unsigned 8 bit

datapool
Virtual IO to and from the internal data pool

('Recognized file extensions: ', '.@')

dicom
2D image io for DICOM

('Recognized file extensions: ', '.DCM, .dcm')

Supported element types:
signed 16 bit, unsigned 16 bit

exr
a 2dimage io plugin for OpenEXR images

('Recognized file extensions: ', '.EXR, .exr')

Supported element types:
unsigned 32 bit, floating point 32 bit

jpg
a 2dimage io plugin for jpeg gray scale images

('Recognized file extensions: ', '.JPEG, .JPG, .jpeg, .jpg')

Supported element types:
unsigned 8 bit

png
a 2dimage io plugin for png images

('Recognized file extensions: ', '.PNG, .png')

Supported element types:
binary data, unsigned 8 bit, unsigned 16 bit

raw
RAW 2D-image output support

('Recognized file extensions: ', '.RAW, .raw')

Supported element types:
binary data, signed 8 bit, unsigned 8 bit, signed 16 bit, unsigned 16 bit, signed 32 bit, unsigned 32 bit, floating point 32 bit, floating point 64 bit

tif
TIFF 2D-image input/output support

('Recognized file extensions: ', '.TIF, .TIFF, .tif, .tiff')

Supported element types:
binary data, unsigned 8 bit, unsigned 16 bit, unsigned 32 bit

vista
a 2dimage io plugin for vista images

('Recognized file extensions: ', '.-, .V, .VISTA, .v, .vista')

Supported element types:
binary data, signed 8 bit, unsigned 8 bit, signed 16 bit, unsigned 16 bit, signed 32 bit, unsigned 32 bit, floating point 32 bit, floating point 64 bit

PLUGINS: 2dimage/maskedcost

lncc
local normalized cross correlation with masking support., supported parameters are:

w = 5; uint in [1, 256]
half width of the window used for evaluating the localized cross correlation.

mi
Spline parzen based mutual information with masking., supported parameters are:

cut = 0; float in [0, 40]
Percentage of pixels to cut at high and low intensities to remove outliers.

mbins = 64; uint in [1, 256]
Number of histogram bins used for the moving image.

mkernel = [bspline:d=3]; factory
Spline kernel for moving image parzen hinstogram. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinekernel

rbins = 64; uint in [1, 256]
Number of histogram bins used for the reference image.

rkernel = [bspline:d=0]; factory
Spline kernel for reference image parzen hinstogram. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinekernel

ncc
normalized cross correlation with masking support.

(no parameters)
ssd
Sum of squared differences with masking.

(no parameters)

PLUGINS: 2dimage/transform

affine
Affine transformation (six degrees of freedom)., supported parameters are:

imgboundary = mirror; factory
image interpolation boundary conditions. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinebc

imgkernel = [bspline:d=3]; factory
image interpolator kernel. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinekernel

rigid
Rigid transformations (i.e. rotation and translation, three degrees of freedom)., supported parameters are:

imgboundary = mirror; factory
image interpolation boundary conditions. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinebc

imgkernel = [bspline:d=3]; factory
image interpolator kernel. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinekernel

rot-center = [[0,0]]; 2dfvector
Relative rotation center, i.e. <0.5,0.5> corresponds to the center of the support rectangle.

rotation
Rotation transformations (i.e. rotation about a given center, one degree of freedom)., supported parameters are:

imgboundary = mirror; factory
image interpolation boundary conditions. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinebc

imgkernel = [bspline:d=3]; factory
image interpolator kernel. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinekernel

rot-center = [[0,0]]; 2dfvector
Relative rotation center, i.e. <0.5,0.5> corresponds to the center of the support rectangle.

spline
Free-form transformation that can be described by a set of B-spline coefficients and an underlying B-spline kernel., supported parameters are:

anisorate = [[0,0]]; 2dfvector
anisotropic coefficient rate in pixels, nonpositive values will be overwritten by the 'rate' value..

imgboundary = mirror; factory
image interpolation boundary conditions. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinebc

imgkernel = [bspline:d=3]; factory
image interpolator kernel. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinekernel

kernel = [bspline:d=3]; factory
transformation spline kernel.. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinekernel

penalty = ; factory
Transformation penalty term. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:2dtransform/splinepenalty

rate = 10; float in [1, inf)
isotropic coefficient rate in pixels.

translate
Translation only (two degrees of freedom), supported parameters are:

imgboundary = mirror; factory
image interpolation boundary conditions. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinebc

imgkernel = [bspline:d=3]; factory
image interpolator kernel. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinekernel

vf
This plug-in implements a transformation that defines a translation for each point of the grid defining the domain of the transformation., supported parameters are:

imgboundary = mirror; factory
image interpolation boundary conditions. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinebc

imgkernel = [bspline:d=3]; factory
image interpolator kernel. For supported plug-ins see PLUGINS:1d/splinekernel

PLUGINS: 2dtransform/splinepenalty

divcurl
divcurl penalty on the transformation, supported parameters are:

curl = 1; float in [0, inf)
penalty weight on curl.

div = 1; float in [0, inf)
penalty weight on divergence.

norm = 0; bool
Set to 1 if the penalty should be normalized with respect to the image size.

weight = 1; float in (0, inf)
weight of penalty energy.

PLUGINS: minimizer/singlecost

gdas
Gradient descent with automatic step size correction., supported parameters are:

ftolr = 0; double in [0, inf)
Stop if the relative change of the criterion is below..

max-step = 2; double in (0, inf)
Maximal absolute step size.

maxiter = 200; uint in [1, inf)
Stopping criterion: the maximum number of iterations.

min-step = 0.1; double in (0, inf)
Minimal absolute step size.

xtola = 0.01; double in [0, inf)
Stop if the inf-norm of the change applied to x is below this value..

gdsq
Gradient descent with quadratic step estimation, supported parameters are:

ftolr = 0; double in [0, inf)
Stop if the relative change of the criterion is below..

gtola = 0; double in [0, inf)
Stop if the inf-norm of the gradient is below this value..

maxiter = 100; uint in [1, inf)
Stopping criterion: the maximum number of iterations.

scale = 2; double in (1, inf)
Fallback fixed step size scaling.

step = 0.1; double in (0, inf)
Initial step size.

xtola = 0; double in [0, inf)
Stop if the inf-norm of x-update is below this value..

gsl
optimizer plugin based on the multimin optimizers of the GNU Scientific Library (GSL) https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/, supported parameters are:

eps = 0.01; double in (0, inf)
gradient based optimizers: stop when |grad| < eps, simplex: stop when simplex size < eps..

iter = 100; uint in [1, inf)
maximum number of iterations.

opt = gd; dict
Specific optimizer to be used.. Supported values are:
bfgs ‐ Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shann
bfgs2 ‐ Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shann (most efficient version)
cg-fr ‐ Flecher-Reeves conjugate gradient algorithm
gd ‐ Gradient descent.
simplex ‐ Simplex algorithm of Nelder and Mead
cg-pr ‐ Polak-Ribiere conjugate gradient algorithm

step = 0.001; double in (0, inf)
initial step size.

tol = 0.1; double in (0, inf)
some tolerance parameter.

nlopt
Minimizer algorithms using the NLOPT library, for a description of the optimizers please see 'http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/NLopt_Algorithms', supported parameters are:

ftola = 0; double in [0, inf)
Stopping criterion: the absolute change of the objective value is below this value.

ftolr = 0; double in [0, inf)
Stopping criterion: the relative change of the objective value is below this value.

higher = inf; double
Higher boundary (equal for all parameters).

local-opt = none; dict
local minimization algorithm that may be required for the main minimization algorithm.. Supported values are:
gn-orig-direct-l ‐ Dividing Rectangles (original implementation, locally biased)
gn-direct-l-noscal ‐ Dividing Rectangles (unscaled, locally biased)
gn-isres ‐ Improved Stochastic Ranking Evolution Strategy
ld-tnewton ‐ Truncated Newton
gn-direct-l-rand ‐ Dividing Rectangles (locally biased, randomized)
ln-newuoa ‐ Derivative-free Unconstrained Optimization by Iteratively Constructed Quadratic Approximation
gn-direct-l-rand-noscale ‐ Dividing Rectangles (unscaled, locally biased, randomized)
gn-orig-direct ‐ Dividing Rectangles (original implementation)
ld-tnewton-precond ‐ Preconditioned Truncated Newton
ld-tnewton-restart ‐ Truncated Newton with steepest-descent restarting
gn-direct ‐ Dividing Rectangles
ln-neldermead ‐ Nelder-Mead simplex algorithm
ln-cobyla ‐ Constrained Optimization BY Linear Approximation
gn-crs2-lm ‐ Controlled Random Search with Local Mutation
ld-var2 ‐ Shifted Limited-Memory Variable-Metric, Rank 2
ld-var1 ‐ Shifted Limited-Memory Variable-Metric, Rank 1
ld-mma ‐ Method of Moving Asymptotes
ld-lbfgs-nocedal ‐ None
ld-lbfgs ‐ Low-storage BFGS
gn-direct-l ‐ Dividing Rectangles (locally biased)
none ‐ don't specify algorithm
ln-bobyqa ‐ Derivative-free Bound-constrained Optimization
ln-sbplx ‐ Subplex variant of Nelder-Mead
ln-newuoa-bound ‐ Derivative-free Bound-constrained Optimization by Iteratively Constructed Quadratic Approximation
ln-praxis ‐ Gradient-free Local Optimization via the Principal-Axis Method
gn-direct-noscal ‐ Dividing Rectangles (unscaled)
ld-tnewton-precond-restart ‐ Preconditioned Truncated Newton with steepest-descent restarting

lower = -inf; double
Lower boundary (equal for all parameters).

maxiter = 100; int in [1, inf)
Stopping criterion: the maximum number of iterations.

opt = ld-lbfgs; dict
main minimization algorithm. Supported values are:
gn-orig-direct-l ‐ Dividing Rectangles (original implementation, locally biased)
g-mlsl-lds ‐ Multi-Level Single-Linkage (low-discrepancy-sequence, require local gradient based optimization and bounds)
gn-direct-l-noscal ‐ Dividing Rectangles (unscaled, locally biased)
gn-isres ‐ Improved Stochastic Ranking Evolution Strategy
ld-tnewton ‐ Truncated Newton
gn-direct-l-rand ‐ Dividing Rectangles (locally biased, randomized)
ln-newuoa ‐ Derivative-free Unconstrained Optimization by Iteratively Constructed Quadratic Approximation
gn-direct-l-rand-noscale ‐ Dividing Rectangles (unscaled, locally biased, randomized)
gn-orig-direct ‐ Dividing Rectangles (original implementation)
ld-tnewton-precond ‐ Preconditioned Truncated Newton
ld-tnewton-restart ‐ Truncated Newton with steepest-descent restarting
gn-direct ‐ Dividing Rectangles
auglag-eq ‐ Augmented Lagrangian algorithm with equality constraints only
ln-neldermead ‐ Nelder-Mead simplex algorithm
ln-cobyla ‐ Constrained Optimization BY Linear Approximation
gn-crs2-lm ‐ Controlled Random Search with Local Mutation
ld-var2 ‐ Shifted Limited-Memory Variable-Metric, Rank 2
ld-var1 ‐ Shifted Limited-Memory Variable-Metric, Rank 1
ld-mma ‐ Method of Moving Asymptotes
ld-lbfgs-nocedal ‐ None
g-mlsl ‐ Multi-Level Single-Linkage (require local optimization and bounds)
ld-lbfgs ‐ Low-storage BFGS
gn-direct-l ‐ Dividing Rectangles (locally biased)
ln-bobyqa ‐ Derivative-free Bound-constrained Optimization
ln-sbplx ‐ Subplex variant of Nelder-Mead
ln-newuoa-bound ‐ Derivative-free Bound-constrained Optimization by Iteratively Constructed Quadratic Approximation
auglag ‐ Augmented Lagrangian algorithm
ln-praxis ‐ Gradient-free Local Optimization via the Principal-Axis Method
gn-direct-noscal ‐ Dividing Rectangles (unscaled)
ld-tnewton-precond-restart ‐ Preconditioned Truncated Newton with steepest-descent restarting
ld-slsqp ‐ Sequential Least-Squares Quadratic Programming

step = 0; double in [0, inf)
Initial step size for gradient free methods.

stop = -inf; double
Stopping criterion: function value falls below this value.

xtola = 0; double in [0, inf)
Stopping criterion: the absolute change of all x-values is below this value.

xtolr = 0; double in [0, inf)
Stopping criterion: the relative change of all x-values is below this value.

EXAMPLE

Register the perfusion series given in 'segment.set'. Skip two images at the beginning, usa spline transformation of a knot rate 16 pixels, and penalize the transformation by divcurl with weight 5. Store the result in 'registered.set'.

mia-2dmyoperiodic-nonrigid -i segment.set -o registered.set -k 2 -d 5 -f spline:rate=16,penalty=[divcurl:weight=5]

AUTHOR(s)

Gert Wollny

COPYRIGHT

This software is Copyright (c) 1999‐2015 Leipzig, Germany and Madrid, Spain. It comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY and you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3 (or later). For more information run the program with the option '--copyright'.
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