Explicit incorporation of prior anatomical information into a nonrigid registration of thoracic and abdominal CT and 18-FDG whole-body emission PET images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 164-178

  Camara, Oscar ^b,c   Delso, Gaspar ^a,b,d   Colliot, Olivier ^b,e   Moreno Ingelmo, Antonio ^b   Bloch, Isabelle ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^e Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Anatomical constraints; Free form deformations (FFD); Nonrigid registration; Oncology; Thoracic and abdominal computed tomography (CT); Whole body positron emission tomography PET

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ONCOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ANATOMICAL CONSTRAINTS; FREE-FORM DEFORMATIONS; NONRIGID REGISTRATION; QUALITATIVE EVALUATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 33847719532     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.889712     Document Type: Article

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