[ITK] [ITK-users] What is an accepted duration of a 3D registration? Should I expect the MSE to "converge" to 0?

[Matias Montroull]

It would be good to ensure the exe you're using is in release mode, it
works lot faster than a program compiled in debug mode.

El mar., 22 de sept. de 2015 a la(s) 1:31 p. m., Marina Bendersky <
marina.bendersky at gmail.com> escribió:

> I guess I'm using the debug mode ... (not using Visual Studio).
>
> Thanks so much for your help!
> Marina
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 4:53 AM, Matias Montroull <matimontg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Marina,
> > Did you compile in release mode or debug?
> > Regards,
> >
> > Matias
> >
> > On Sep 14, 2015 7:56 PM, "Marina Bendersky" <marina.bendersky at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm doing a 3D registration of 2 CT volumes (the fixed one contains
> >> 131 dicom images and the moving has 145 dicom images).
> >>
> >> I first converted each dicom series into one mha volume, using the
> >> example DicomSeriesReadImageWrite2.cxx and then, I do the registration
> >> following the example imageRegistration20.cxx. Below are the main
> >> registration components and parameters (other parameters had their
> >> default values):
> >>
> >> typedef itk::AffineTransform< double, Dimension  >  TransformType;
> >> typedef itk::RegularStepGradientDescentOptimizer     OptimizerType;
> >> typedef itk::MeanSquaresImageToImageMetric< FixedImageType,
> >> MovingImageType >  MetricType;
> >> typedef itk::LinearInterpolateImageFunction< MovingImageType, double >
> >>  InterpolatorType;
> >>
> >> double translationScale = 1.0 / 1000.0;
> >> optimizer->SetMaximumStepLength( 0.05 );
> >> optimizer->SetMinimumStepLength( 0.01 );
> >>
> >>
> >> This 3D registration runs on a MacBookPro laptop for 5.5 hours, so I
> >> was wondering, is this "normal"? How long should a 3D registration
> >> take?
> >>
> >> Also, the MSE metric keeps decreasing (though incrementally) even
> >> after 300 iterations (plot attached), and there are oscillations
> >> around the iteration 150 (I ran this twice and both times I get this
> >> plot!) - why could this be?
> >>
> >> Should I expect the MSE metric to converge to 0, or something closer
> >> to 0 (instead of the current values, in the ninety thousands...)?
> >>
> >> Thank you for your help,
> >> Marina
> >>
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Matias
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