Fast and accurate registration techniques for affine and nonrigid alignment of MR brain images

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 138-157

  Liu, Jia Xiu ^a   Chen, Yong Sheng ^a   Chen, Li Fen ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Affine non rigid image registration; Correlation ratio; Difference of Gaussian; Radial basis functions; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

3-D IMAGE; ACCURATE REGISTRATION; AFFINE REGISTRATION; AFFINE TRANSFORMATIONS; BRAIN IMAGES; BRAIN MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES; BRAIN STRUCTURE; COARSE-TO-FINE; CORRELATION RATIO; DEFORMATION FIELD; GAUSSIAN RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; GEOMETRIC OPERATIONS; IMAGE DERIVATIVES; IMAGE SIMILARITY; INITIAL ESTIMATE; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION; NON-RIGID DEFORMATION; NOVEL METHODS; OTHER ALGORITHMS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; REGISTRATION PERFORMANCE; REGISTRATION PROCESS; RIGID TRANSFORMATIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL INFERENCE; TARGET IMAGES; VOXEL-BASED MORPHOMETRY;

DEFORMATION; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 74249092258     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-009-9840-9     Document Type: Article

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