A geometry-driven optical flow warping for spatial normalization of cortical surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1739-1753

  Tosun, Duygu ^a,b   Prince, Jerry L ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Multiresolution; Multiscale; Optical flow; Spatial normalization; Surface correspondence; Surface warping

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MULTIRESOLUTION ANALYSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; WEAVING;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; MULTIRESOLUTION; MULTISCALE; SPATIAL NORMALIZATION; SURFACE WARPING;

OPTICAL FLOWS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FUZZY LOGIC; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 56849085974     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.925080     Document Type: Article

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