Automatic localization of the center of fiducial markers in 3D CT/MRI images for image-guided neurosurgery

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 414-420

  Wang, Manning ^a   Song, Zhijian ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Image processing; Image guided neurosurgery; Marker center localization; Registration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; TOMOGRAPHY;

AUTOMATIC LOCALIZATIONS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; FIDUCIAL POINTS; HUMAN ERRORS; IMAGE-GUIDED NEUROSURGERY; MARKER CENTER LOCALIZATION; NOVEL ALGORITHMS; REGISTRATION; REGISTRATION PROCESSES; SPEED-UP; SURFACE PATCHES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 58349111181     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2008.11.001     Document Type: Article

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