Medical Image Registration Combined with SURF and Improved RANSAC Algorithm

Aiming at the requirements of medical image registration for good robustness, high-accuracy and speed, this paper proposes a Medical Image Registration algorithm Combined SURF with improved RANSAC algorithm. This algorithm first of all extracts SURF featured points from images and matches similar featured points, then the improved RANSAC algorithm is used to eliminate wrong matches, and finally the image registration process is accomplished by estimating space geometric varied parameters according to least square method. The algorithm combines robustness and high efficiency of SURF and high-accuracy of improved RANSAC algorithm. Experimental results show that in the condition of images with noise, non-uniform intensity and large scope of the initial misalignment, the proposed algorithm achieves better robustness and higher speed while maintaining good registration accuracy compared with the conventional ional area-based and feature-based registration methods.