Multiscale deformable registration for dual-energy x-ray imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 351-363

  Gang, G J ^a,b   Varon, C A ^a   Kashani, H ^a   Richard, S ^a,c   Paul, N S ^d   Van Metter, R ^e   Yorkston, J ^e   Siewerdsen, J H ^a,b,c  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^e CARESTREAM HEALTH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Deformable registration; Dual energy imaging; Flat panel detector; Image registration; Morphological pyramid; Multiscale registration; Mutual information; Normalized cross correlation

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DIAGNOSIS; GATING AND FEEDING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE REGISTRATION; NOISE ABATEMENT; QUALITY CONTROL;

DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION; DUAL-ENERGY IMAGING; FLAT PANEL DETECTORS; MORPHOLOGICAL PYRAMIDS; MULTISCALE REGISTRATIONS; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; NORMALIZED CROSS CORRELATION;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 59249100879     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3036981     Document Type: Article

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