An optimised radial basis function algorithm for fast non-rigid registration of medical images

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-7

  Lapeer, R J ^a   Shah, S K ^a   Rowland, R S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b RMR Systems Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer assisted surgery; Medical image registration; Radial basis functions; Real time performance; Smooth interpolation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CT IMAGE; EQUIVALENT ALGORITHM; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; IMAGE GUIDED SURGERY; MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL IMAGE REGISTRATION; MEDICAL IMAGES; MULTI-MODAL; NON-RIGID REGISTRATION ALGORITHMS; NONRIGID REGISTRATION; POINT-BASED; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; REAL TIME PERFORMANCE; REGISTRATION ACCURACY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERPOLATION; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; SURGERY;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROCOMPUTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL BASED FUNCTION;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 74149089180     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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