Registration of lung nodules using a semi-rigid model: Method and preliminary results

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 613-626

  Sun, Shaohua ^a   Rubin, Geoffrey D ^a   Paik, David ^a   Steiner, Robert M ^a   Zhuge, Feng ^a   Napel, Sandy ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Lung nodule registration; Semi rigid method; Two layered optimization

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; IMAGE CORRELATIONS; LAYERED OPTIMIZATION; LUNG NODULE; NON-RIGID TRANSFORMATION; PRINCIPAL STRUCTURES; REGISTRATION SYSTEMS; SEMI-RIGID;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELASTICITY; LUNG NODULE; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

EID: 33846628969     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2432073     Document Type: Article

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