Image registration of computed tomography of lung infected with COVID-19 using an improved sine cosine algorithm

In recent years, the optimization problem using meta-heuristic algorithms has been widely used in medical image registration and was a solution in diagnosing many diseases and tumors. Given the great success achieved by the sine cosine algorithm (SCA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithms in many medical images analysis, and the use of the computed tomography (CT) scan images for diagnosing COVID-19 patients, we propose an improved sine cosine algorithm (ISCA) resulting from the hybridization of the SCA and PSO algorithms to register the CT images of the lung of the people infected by COVID-19. Simulation results show that the proposed approach can achieve high accuracy and robust recording compared to the SCA method. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT: [Image: see text]