Intensity-based image registration using multiple distributed agents

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 256-264

  Tait, Roger J ^a   Schaefer, Gerald ^b   Hopgood, Adrian A ^c  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DARBS; Distributed blackboard system; Image registration; Parallel processing; Similarity metric

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; IMAGE REGISTRATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS;

DISTRIBUTED BLACKBOARD SYSTEM; SIMILARITY METRICS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 40249099319     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2007.11.013     Document Type: Article

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