Robust, fast and accurate: a 3-step method for automatic histological image registration

03/28/2019
by   Johannes Lotz, et al.
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We present a 3-step registration pipeline for differently stained histological serial sections that consists of 1) a robust pre-alignment, 2) a parametric registration computed on coarse resolution images, and 3) an accurate nonlinear registration. In all three steps the NGF distance measure is minimized with respect to an increasingly flexible transformation. We apply the method in the ANHIR image registration challenge and evaluate its performance on the training data. The presented method is robust (error reduction in 99.6 of the cases), fast (runtime < 4 seconds) and accurate (median relative target registration error 0.0019).

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