Entropy-based dual-portal-to-3-DCT registration incorporating pixel correlation

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-49

  Bansal, Ravi ^a   Staib, Lawrence H ^a   Chen, Zhe ^b   Rangarajan, Anand ^b   Knisely, Jonathan ^b   Nath, Ravinder ^b   Duncan, James S ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); Markov random field; Portal images; Radiotherapy; Registration; Segmentation; Simulator images

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ESTIMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; ONCOLOGY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIOTHERAPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; MINIMAX ENTROPY; PORTAL IMAGE; PROSTATE CANCER; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037261812     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2002.806430     Document Type: Article

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