Rigid medical image registration and its association with mutual information

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1167-1206

  Fookes, Clinton ^a   Bennamoun, Mohammed ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Medical images; Mutual information; Rigid registration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; INFORMATION THEORY; MEDICAL IMAGING;

IMAGE REGISTRATION; MUTUAL INFORMATION (MI); RIGID REGISTRATION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0346267580     PISSN: 02180014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218001403002800     Document Type: Review

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