[Insight-users] Inconsistent registration result.

lien lee lienlee at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 17:52:56 EST 2013


Hi itk-users,

I took a further step today.  I derived a class
from MattesMutualInformationImageToImageMetric, and made it being the
metric, so that, I could sneak into itk and visit the protected
member ImageToImageMetric< TFixedImage, TMovingImage
>::m_FixedImageSamples. I printed out a couple of sample points (their
coordinates and image values), and I also printed out the seed value of the
random number generator, which I set as ReinitializeSeed(76926294).  I get
the seed value by
calling Statistics::MersenneTwisterRandomVariateGenerator::GetInstance()->GetSeed();
In different runs, I do see same seed were used, but I also do see
different sample points.  I tried this on two different computers, at both
of which I saw the inconsistent results. Seems to be the random number
generator is non-deterministic even with same seed.  However, the weird
thing is if I do not use the image mask, it would be consistent.

Any thoughts?


2013/2/26 lien lee <lienlee at gmail.com>

> Hi Seth,
>
> By clicking the link you provided, the code I saw there is as partly
> attached, which is different from what I have with ITK 4.2 on my computer.
>
> I do not have experience with this code, and I am not exactly sure how it
> works.  But, looks to me, optimizer would call the function during each
> iteration, and the function would rebuild all the sample points again and
> again for all the iterations.  If my understanding were correct, this would
> be quite different from what I have with ITK 4.2 on my computer, where all
> the samples were created
> in MattesMutualInformationImageToImageMetric::Initialize() as *a one time
> thing*, and the counted points would be determined for each iteration
> using the current transform by checking whether the mapped points were
> inside the moving image mask. Therefore, for the code I am working on, to
> my understanding, if I called ReinitializeSeed(76926294) before generating
> all the sample points
> in MattesMutualInformationImageToImageMetric::Initialize(), the results
> should be deterministic, no matter whether I applied the image masks or
> not. But, the testing results with image mask applied does NOT support my
> understanding.
>
> BTW, to your question, my moving image mask may not be "restrictive"
> because it occupied pretty much about 80% of the whole moving image.
>
> Thanks again for your inputs.
>
>
>  106<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l106>template <class TFixedImage,
> class TMovingImage>
>  107<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l107>void
>  108<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l108>MutualInformationImageToImageMetric<TFixedImage, TMovingImage>
>  109<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l109>::SampleFixedImageDomain(
>  110<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l110>  SpatialSampleContainer & samples) const
>  111<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l111>{
>  112<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l112>  typedef ImageRandomConstIteratorWithIndex<FixedImageType> RandomIterator;
>  113<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l113>  RandomIterator randIter( this->m_FixedImage, this->GetFixedImageRegion() );
>  114<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l114>
>  115<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l115>  randIter.SetNumberOfSamples(m_NumberOfSpatialSamples);
>  116<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l116>  randIter.GoToBegin();
>  117<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l117>
>  118<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l118>  typename SpatialSampleContainer::iterator iter;
>  119<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l119>  typename SpatialSampleContainer::const_iterator end = samples.end();
>  120<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l120>
>  121<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l121>  bool allOutside = true;
>  122<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l122>
>  123<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l123>  this->m_NumberOfPixelsCounted = 0;    // Number of pixels that map into the
>  124<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l124>                                        // fixed and moving image mask, if
>  125<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l125>                                        // specified
>  126<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l126>                                        // and the resampled fixed grid after
>  127<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l127>                                        // transformation.
>  128<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l128>
>  129<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l129>  // Number of random picks made from the portion of fixed image within the
>  130<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l130>  // fixed mask
>  131<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l131>  SizeValueType numberOfFixedImagePixelsVisited = 0;
>  132<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l132>  SizeValueType dryRunTolerance = this->GetFixedImageRegion().GetNumberOfPixels();
>  133<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l133>  for( iter = samples.begin(); iter != end; ++iter )
>  134<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l134>    {
>  135<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l135>    // Get sampled index
>  136<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l136>    FixedImageIndexType index = randIter.GetIndex();
>  137<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l137>    // Get sampled fixed image value
>  138<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l138>    ( *iter ).FixedImageValue = randIter.Get();
>  139<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l139>    // Translate index to point
>  140<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l140>    this->m_FixedImage->TransformIndexToPhysicalPoint(index,
>  141<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l141>                                                      ( *iter ).FixedImagePointValue);
>  142<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l142>
>  143<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l143>    // If not inside the fixed mask, ignore the point
>  144<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l144>    if( this->m_FixedImageMask
>  145<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l145>        && !this->m_FixedImageMask->IsInside( ( *iter ).FixedImagePointValue ) )
>  146<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l146>      {
>  147<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l147>      ++randIter; // jump to another random position
>  148<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l148>      continue;
>  149<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l149>      }
>  150<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l150>
>  151<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l151>    if( allOutside )
>  152<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l152>      {
>  153<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l153>      ++numberOfFixedImagePixelsVisited;
>  154<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l154>      if( numberOfFixedImagePixelsVisited > dryRunTolerance )
>  155<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l155>        {
>  156<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l156>        // We randomly visited as many points as is the size of the fixed image
>  157<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l157>        // region.. Too may samples mapped ouside.. go change your transform
>  158<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l158>        itkExceptionMacro(<< "Too many samples mapped outside the moving buffer");
>  159<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l159>        }
>  160<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l160>      }
>  161<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l161>
>  162<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l162>    MovingImagePointType mappedPoint =
>  163<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l163>      this->m_Transform->TransformPoint( ( *iter ).FixedImagePointValue );
>  164<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l164>
>  165<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l165>    // If the transformed point after transformation does not lie within the
>  166<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l166>    // MovingImageMask, skip it.
>  167<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l167>    if( this->m_MovingImageMask
>  168<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l168>        && !this->m_MovingImageMask->IsInside(mappedPoint) )
>  169<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l169>      {
>  170<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l170>      ++randIter;
>  171<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l171>      continue;
>  172<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l172>      }
>  173<http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l173>
>
> <http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD#l174>
>
> 2013/2/26 Seth Gilchrist <seth at mech.ubc.ca>
>
>> Hi Lien,
>> Unfortunately I have not used masks when performing registrations, so
>> can't help you with this specific problem.
>>
>> I took a look at the git blob for the MattesMutual...Metric and was
>> examining how the decision to keep or reject a give point is handled. If
>> you are setting a mask on both the fixed and moving images, this will
>> change what points are used because a check is done to see if a point is in
>> the fixed mask and if it is in the moving mask after applying the current
>> transform. Could your moving image mask be too restrictive for the early
>> stages of the registration?
>>
>> You can read the code at:
>>
>> http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Registration/Common/include/itkMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.hxx;h=1244e5c0be768696cf042f6f39739f4b2bdcbba6;hb=HEAD
>>
>> Starting on line 108, specifically on line 162.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Seth
>>
>> *Seth Gilchrist, MASc, PhD Candidate
>> +---------------------------------------+
>> Orthopaedic and Injury Biomechanics Group
>> UBC Department of Mechanical Engineering
>> 6th Floor-2635 Laurel Street
>> Vancouver, BC V5Z-1M9
>> +---------------------------------------+
>> seth at mech.ubc.ca
>> Fax 604-675-2576*
>>
>>
>
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