Automated finite-element analysis for deformable registration of prostate images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1379-1390

  Crouch, Jessica R ^a,b   Pizer, Stephen M ^a,c   Chaney, Edward L ^c   Hu, Yu Chi ^d   Mageras, Gig S ^d   Zaider, Marco ^d  

^a IEEE

^b Old Dominion University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Elastic; Finite element; M rep; Prostate; Registration

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATIENT MONITORING;

DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION; PROSTATE IMAGES;

IMAGE REGISTRATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34948907372     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2007.898810     Document Type: Article

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