Registration of Cervical MRI Using Multifeature Mutual Information

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1412-1421

  Staring, Marius ^a   Klein, Stefan ^b   Viergever, Max A ^b   Pluim, Josien P W ^b   van der Heide, Uulke A ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cervical cancer; kNN graphs; local image structure; nonrigid registration; radiation therapy; Shannon mutual information; mutual information

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLADDER; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECTUM; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; UTERUS;

ALGORITHMS; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECTUM; URINARY BLADDER; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; UTERUS;

EID: 70449714757     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2016560     Document Type: Article

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