ants.math.metrics

Functions

image_mutual_information(image1, image2)

Compute mutual information between two ANTsImage types

image_mutual_information(image1, image2)[source]

Compute mutual information between two ANTsImage types

ANTsR function: antsImageMutualInformation

Parameters:

image1 (ants.core.ANTsImage) – image 1
image2 (ants.core.ANTsImage) – image 2

Return type:

scalar

Example

>>> import ants
>>> fi = ants.image_read( ants.get_ants_data('r16') ).clone('float')
>>> mi = ants.image_read( ants.get_ants_data('r64') ).clone('float')
>>> mival = ants.image_mutual_information(fi, mi) # -0.1796141