Medical image registration using mutual information

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1699-1721

  Maes, Frederik ^a   Vandermeulen, Dirk ^a   Suetens, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Image registration; Medical imaging; Mutual information

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION THEORY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOMETRY; RADIOLOGY; SURFACES;

ECHO PLANAR IMAGING (EPI); IMAGE REGISTRATION; MORPHOMETRY; MUTUAL INFORMATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 2442477114     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2003.817864     Document Type: Conference Paper

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