A "Twisting and bending" model-based nonrigid image registration technique for 3-D ultrasound carotid images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1378-1388

  Nanayakkara, Nuwan D ^a   Chiu, Bernard ^a   Samani, Abbas ^b   Spence, J David ^a   Samarabandu, Jagath ^b   Fenster, Aaron ^a  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carotid artery plaque; Image registration; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DISEASES; ERRORS; IMAGE REGISTRATION; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

CAROTID ARTERY; NON-RIGID REGISTRATION ALGORITHMS; NONLINEAR DEFORMATIONS; NONRIGID IMAGE REGISTRATION; NONRIGID REGISTRATION; PHARMACOLOGICAL TREATMENT; REGISTRATION TECHNIQUES; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

IMAGE ACQUISITION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 52649119172     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.918326     Document Type: Article

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