ITK  4.8.0
Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit
Examples/Statistics/ImageMutualInformation1.cxx
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// Software Guide : BeginLatex
//
// This example illustrates how to compute the Mutual Information between two
// images using classes from the Statistics framework. Note that you could also
// use for this purpose the ImageMetrics designed for the image registration
// framework.
//
// For example, you could use:
//
// \begin{itemize}
// \item \doxygen{MutualInformationImageToImageMetric}
// \item \doxygen{MattesMutualInformationImageToImageMetric}
// \item \doxygen{MutualInformationHistogramImageToImageMetric}
// \item \doxygen{MutualInformationImageToImageMetric}
// \item \doxygen{NormalizedMutualInformationHistogramImageToImageMetric}
// \item \doxygen{KullbackLeiblerCompareHistogramImageToImageMetric}
// \end{itemize}
//
// Mutual Information as computed in this example, and as commonly used in the
// context of image registration provides a measure of how much uncertainty on
// the value of a pixel in one image is reduced by measuring the homologous
// pixel in the other image. Note that Mutual Information as used here does not
// measure the amount of information that one image provides on the other
// image; this would require us to take into account the spatial
// structures in the images as well as the semantics of the image context in
// terms of an observer.
//
// This implies that there is still an enormous unexploited potential on the
// use of the Mutual Information concept in the domain of medical images,
// among the most interesting of which is the semantic description of
// image in terms of anatomical structures.
//
// \index{Mutual Information!Statistics}
// \index{Statistics!Mutual Information}
// \index{Joint Entropy!Statistics}
// \index{Statistics!Joint Entropy}
// \index{Joint Histogram!Statistics}
// \index{Statistics!Joint Histogram}
//
// Software Guide : EndLatex
// Software Guide : BeginLatex
//
// In this particular example we make use of classes from the Statistics
// framework in order to compute the measure of Mutual Information between two
// images. We assume that both images have the same number of pixels along
// every dimension and that they have the same origin and spacing. Therefore
// the pixels from one image are perfectly aligned with those of the other
// image.
//
// We must start by including the header files of the image, histogram
// filter, reader and Join image filter. We will read both images and use
// the Join image filter in order to compose an image of two components using
// the information of each one of the input images in one component. This is
// the natural way of using the Statistics framework in ITK given that the
// fundamental statistical classes are expecting to receive multi-valued
// measures.
//
// Software Guide : EndLatex
// Software Guide : BeginCodeSnippet
#include "itkImage.h"
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int main( int argc, char * argv [] )
{
if( argc < 3 )
{
std::cerr << "Missing command line arguments" << std::endl;
std::cerr << "Usage : ImageMutualInformation1 inputImage1 inputImage2 " << std::endl;
return -1;
}
// Software Guide : BeginLatex
//
// We define the pixel type and dimension of the images to be read.
//
// Software Guide : EndLatex
// Software Guide : BeginCodeSnippet
typedef unsigned char PixelComponentType;
const unsigned int Dimension = 2;
// Software Guide : EndCodeSnippet
// Software Guide : BeginLatex
//
// Using the image type we proceed to instantiate the readers for both input
// images. Then, we take their filenames from the command line arguments.
//
// Software Guide : EndLatex
// Software Guide : BeginCodeSnippet
ReaderType::Pointer reader1 = ReaderType::New();
ReaderType::Pointer reader2 = ReaderType::New();
reader1->SetFileName( argv[1] );
reader2->SetFileName( argv[2] );
// Software Guide : EndCodeSnippet
// Software Guide : BeginLatex
//
// Using the \doxygen{JoinImageFilter} we use the two input images and put them
// together in an image of two components.
//
// Software Guide : EndLatex
// Software Guide : BeginCodeSnippet
JoinFilterType::Pointer joinFilter = JoinFilterType::New();
joinFilter->SetInput1( reader1->GetOutput() );
joinFilter->SetInput2( reader2->GetOutput() );
// Software Guide : EndCodeSnippet
// Software Guide : BeginLatex
//
// At this point we trigger the execution of the pipeline by invoking the
// \code{Update()} method on the Join filter. We must put the call inside a
// try/catch block because the Update() call may potentially result in
// exceptions being thrown.
//
// Software Guide : EndLatex
// Software Guide : BeginCodeSnippet
try
{
joinFilter->Update();
}
catch( itk::ExceptionObject & excp )
{
std::cerr << excp << std::endl;
return -1;
}
// Software Guide : EndCodeSnippet
// Software Guide : BeginLatex
//
// We now prepare the types to be used for the computation of the joint
// histogram. For this purpose, we take the type of the image resulting from
// the JoinImageFilter and use it as template argument of the
// \doxygen{ImageToHistogramFilter}. We then construct one by invoking the
// \code{New()} method.
//
// Software Guide : EndLatex
// Software Guide : BeginCodeSnippet
typedef JoinFilterType::OutputImageType VectorImageType;
VectorImageType > HistogramFilterType;
HistogramFilterType::Pointer histogramFilter = HistogramFilterType::New();
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//
// We pass the multiple-component image as input to the histogram filter,
// and setup the marginal scale value that will define the precision to be used
// for classifying values into the histogram bins.
//
// Software Guide : EndLatex
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histogramFilter->SetInput( joinFilter->GetOutput() );
histogramFilter->SetMarginalScale( 10.0 );
// Software Guide : EndCodeSnippet
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//
// We must now define the number of bins to use for each one of the components
// in the joint image. For this purpose we take the \code{HistogramSizeType} from the
// traits of the histogram filter type.
//
// Software Guide : EndLatex
// Software Guide : BeginCodeSnippet
typedef HistogramFilterType::HistogramSizeType HistogramSizeType;
HistogramSizeType size( 2 );
size[0] = 255; // number of bins for the first channel
size[1] = 255; // number of bins for the second channel
histogramFilter->SetHistogramSize( size );
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// Software Guide : BeginLatex
//
// Finally, we must specify the upper and lower bounds for the histogram
// using the \code{SetHistogramBinMinimum()} and
// \code{SetHistogramBinMaximum()} methods. The \code{Update()} method is then
// called in order to trigger the computation of the histogram.
//
// Software Guide : EndLatexex
// Software Guide : BeginCodeSnippet
typedef HistogramFilterType::HistogramMeasurementVectorType
HistogramMeasurementVectorType;
HistogramMeasurementVectorType binMinimum( 3 );
HistogramMeasurementVectorType binMaximum( 3 );
binMinimum[0] = -0.5;
binMinimum[1] = -0.5;
binMinimum[2] = -0.5;
binMaximum[0] = 255.5;
binMaximum[1] = 255.5;
binMaximum[2] = 255.5;
histogramFilter->SetHistogramBinMinimum( binMinimum );
histogramFilter->SetHistogramBinMaximum( binMaximum );
histogramFilter->Update();
// Software Guide : EndCodeSnippet
// Software Guide : BeginLatex
//
// The histogram can be recovered from the filter by creating a variable
// with the histogram type taken from the filter traits.
//
// Software Guide : EndLatex
// Software Guide : BeginCodeSnippet
typedef HistogramFilterType::HistogramType HistogramType;
const HistogramType * histogram = histogramFilter->GetOutput();
// Software Guide : EndCodeSnippet
// Software Guide : BeginLatex
//
// We now walk over all the bins of the joint histogram and compute their
// contribution to the value of the joint entropy. For this purpose we use
// histogram iterators, and the \code{Begin()} and \code{End()} methods. Since
// the values returned from the histogram are measuring frequency we must
// convert them to an estimation of probability by dividing them over the total
// sum of frequencies returned by the \code{GetTotalFrequency()} method.
//
// Software Guide : EndLatex
// Software Guide : BeginCodeSnippet
HistogramType::ConstIterator itr = histogram->Begin();
HistogramType::ConstIterator end = histogram->End();
const double Sum = histogram->GetTotalFrequency();
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// Software Guide : BeginLatex
//
// We initialize to zero the variable to use for accumulating the value of the
// joint entropy, and then use the iterator for visiting all the bins of the
// joint histogram. For every bin we compute their contribution to the reduction
// of uncertainty. Note that in order to avoid logarithmic operations on zero
// values, we skip over those bins that have less than one count. The entropy
// contribution must be computed using logarithms in base two in order to
// express entropy in \textbf{bits}.
//
// Software Guide : EndLatex
// Software Guide : BeginCodeSnippet
double JointEntropy = 0.0;
while( itr != end )
{
const double count = itr.GetFrequency();
if( count > 0.0 )
{
const double probability = count / Sum;
JointEntropy +=
- probability * std::log( probability ) / std::log( 2.0 );
}
++itr;
}
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std::cout << "Joint Entropy = " << JointEntropy << " bits " << std::endl;
// Software Guide : BeginLatex
//
// Now that we have the value of the joint entropy we can proceed to estimate
// the values of the entropies for each image independently. This can be done
// by simply changing the number of bins and then recomputing the histogram.
//
// Software Guide : EndLatex
// Software Guide : BeginCodeSnippet
size[0] = 255; // number of bins for the first channel
size[1] = 1; // number of bins for the second channel
histogramFilter->SetHistogramSize( size );
histogramFilter->Update();
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// Software Guide : BeginLatex
//
// We initialize to zero another variable in order to start accumulating the
// entropy contributions from every bin.
//
// Software Guide : EndLatex
// Software Guide : BeginCodeSnippet
itr = histogram->Begin();
end = histogram->End();
double Entropy1 = 0.0;
while( itr != end )
{
const double count = itr.GetFrequency();
if( count > 0.0 )
{
const double probability = count / Sum;
Entropy1 += - probability * std::log( probability ) / std::log( 2.0 );
}
++itr;
}
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std::cout << "Image1 Entropy = " << Entropy1 << " bits " << std::endl;
// Software Guide : BeginLatex
//
// The same process is used for computing the entropy of the other component,
// simply by swapping the number of bins in the histogram.
//
// Software Guide : EndLatex
// Software Guide : BeginCodeSnippet
size[0] = 1; // number of bins for the first channel
size[1] = 255; // number of bins for the second channel
histogramFilter->SetHistogramSize( size );
histogramFilter->Update();
// Software Guide : EndCodeSnippet
// Software Guide : BeginLatex
//
// The entropy is computed in a similar manner, just by visiting all the bins on
// the histogram and accumulating their entropy contributions.
//
//
// Software Guide : EndLatex
// Software Guide : BeginCodeSnippet
itr = histogram->Begin();
end = histogram->End();
double Entropy2 = 0.0;
while( itr != end )
{
const double count = itr.GetFrequency();
if( count > 0.0 )
{
const double probability = count / Sum;
Entropy2 += - probability * std::log( probability ) / std::log( 2.0 );
}
++itr;
}
// Software Guide : EndCodeSnippet
std::cout << "Image2 Entropy = " << Entropy2 << " bits " << std::endl;
// Software Guide : BeginLatex
//
// At this point we can compute any of the popular measures of Mutual
// Information. For example
//
// Software Guide : EndLatex
// Software Guide : BeginCodeSnippet
double MutualInformation = Entropy1 + Entropy2 - JointEntropy;
// Software Guide : EndCodeSnippet
std::cout << "Mutual Information = " << MutualInformation << " bits " << std::endl;
// Software Guide : BeginLatex
//
// or Normalized Mutual Information, where the value of Mutual Information is
// divided by the mean entropy of the input images.
//
// Software Guide : EndLatex
// Software Guide : BeginCodeSnippet
double NormalizedMutualInformation1 =
2.0 * MutualInformation / ( Entropy1 + Entropy2 );
// Software Guide : EndCodeSnippet
std::cout << "Normalized Mutual Information 1 = " << NormalizedMutualInformation1 << std::endl;
// Software Guide : BeginLatex
//
// A second form of Normalized Mutual Information has been defined as the mean
// entropy of the two images divided by their joint entropy.
//
// Software Guide : EndLatex
// Software Guide : BeginCodeSnippet
double NormalizedMutualInformation2 = ( Entropy1 + Entropy2 ) / JointEntropy;
// Software Guide : EndCodeSnippet
std::cout << "Normalized Mutual Information 2 = " << NormalizedMutualInformation2 << std::endl;
// Software Guide : BeginLatex
//
// You probably will find very interesting how the value of Mutual Information
// is strongly dependent on the number of bins over which the histogram is
// defined.
//
// Software Guide : EndLatex
return 0;
}