Consistent and elastic 2D image registration. Homepage: bUnwarpJ.

Registration method based on elastic deformations represented by B-splines. The invertibility of the deformations is forced through a consistency restriction. For a quick start, you can have a look at the video tutorial.

Ignacio Arganda-Carreras

It elastically registers two 2D images (8, 16, 32-bit grayscale or RGB Color).

bUnwarpJ is an algorithm for elastic and consistent image registration developed as an ImageJ plugin. It performs a simultaneous registration of two images, A and B. Image A is elastically deformed in order to look as similar as possible to image B, and, at the same time, the “inverse” transformation (from B to A) is also calculated so a pseudo-invertibility of the final deformation could be guaranteed. Two images are given as a result: the deformed versions of A and B images.

The algorithm implemented on bUnwarpJ and its technical explanations are detailed on the paper:

Ignacio Arganda-Carreras, Carlos O. S. Sorzano, Roberto Marabini, Jose M. Carazo, Carlos Ortiz de Solorzano, and Jan Kybic, “Consistent and Elastic Registration of Histological Sections using Vector-Spline Regularization”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, volume 4241/2006, CVAMIA: Computer Vision Approaches to Medical Image Analysis, pages 85-95, 2006.

For more details, visit the plugin's homepage: bUnwarpJ.

You must simply download bUnwarpJ_.jar to the Plugins folder of ImageJ, restart ImageJ and there will be a new “Registration > bUnwarpJ” command in the Plugins menu.

You can download the latest version of the plugin with the JAR file bUnwarpJ_.jar. The source code is available in GitHub.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt).

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.