Incorporating a measure of local scale in voxel-based 3-D image registration

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 228-237

  Nyúl, László G ^a   Udupa, Jayaram K ^b   Saha, Punam K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation; Image analysis; Image processing; Image registration; Image scale; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Multiple sclerosis; Mutual information

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

IMAGE FILTERING; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGE SCALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MULTIPROTOCOL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUTUAL INFORMATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0038398636     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2002.808358     Document Type: Article

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