<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Dear Ken,<div><br></div><div>The most important difference between Mattes mutual information and regular</div><div><br></div><div>mutual information metric in ITK is their sampling. While the mutual information</div><div><br></div><div>metric take samples from all of the transformation space, the Mattes mutual </div><div><br></div><div>information only samples pixels from number of predefined histogram bins </div><div><br></div><div>which extremely decreases the computation time and improves the performance.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards, </div><div><br></div><div>Masslawi.</div></td></tr></table><br>