Visual assessment of the accuracy of retrospective registration of MR and CT images of the brain

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 571-585

  Michael Fitzpatrick, J ^a   Hill, Derek L G ^a   Shyr, Yu ^a   West, Jay ^a   Studholme, Colin ^a   Maurer Jr , Calvin R ^a  

^a Departments of Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Computed tomography (CT); Image registration; Magnetic resonance (MR); Retrospective registration; Visual assessment

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

IMAGE REGISTRATION; KAPPA STATISTICS; RECEIVER-OPERATING-CHARACTERISTICS (ROC);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHY; ROC CURVE;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CALIBRATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; ROC CURVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032129160     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.730402     Document Type: Article

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