Accuracy and reproducibility of co-registration techniques based on mutual information and normalized mutual information for MRI and SPECT brain images

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 659-667

  Yokoi, Takashi ^a,f   Soma, Tsutomu ^b,c   Shinohara, Hiroyuki ^d   Matsuda, Hiroshi ^e  

^a Bioimaging Laboratory Inc   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c Clin Application Technology Group   (Japan)

^d TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f Bioimaging Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

Entropy; Image registration; Mutual information; Normalized mutual information; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; ERROR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MUTUAL INFORMATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REGISTRATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 13444256228     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02985959     Document Type: Article

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