Interdisciplinary Project

The IDP for my minor 'theoretical medical science' was about registration of coronary heart data. The task was to find a fast, suitable algorithm which can registrate CT datasets to mark known areas (e. g. the heart chambers, atriums, etc.). The registration should work with affine matrices which transform a reference CT dataset to match the given one. To speed up the matching, the dataset was reduced using sphere growing (combined with FFT), particle emission and finally a built up graph, representing the blood streams of the CT dataset.


Finally I managed to develop a system which runs 23 seconds in average for each registration process based on a reference CT dataset. The algorithm is able to detect 61% of the existing structures using affine transformations and distance based registration only! For the remaining 39% of so far undetected significant areas, at least the alignment for the registration was improved. It should be noted, that it is not possible to perform a perfect registration using one reference dataset.

More information is available of the website of my interdisciplinary project

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