Estimation of slipping organ motion by registration with direction-dependent regularization

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 150-159

  Schmidt Richberg, Alexander ^a   Werner, René ^a   Handels, Heinz ^a   Ehrhardt, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Image registration; Lung; Respiratory motion; Sliding motion; Slipping motion

Indexed keywords

4D IMAGING; ABDOMINAL TUMORS; ACCURATE ESTIMATION; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; BREATHING CYCLE; DIFFUSION REGISTRATION; DIFFUSION REGULARIZATION; INTENSITY-BASED; LUNG; LUNG MOTION; MOTION FIELDS; ORGAN MOTION; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; SLIDING MOTIONS; SLIPPING MOTION; TARGET REGISTRATION ERRORS; THORACIC CT;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; ESTIMATION; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MOTION ESTIMATION; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TISSUE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION; EXHALATION; HUMAN; INHALATION; LUNG; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTRATION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MOVEMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 82355182059     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2011.06.007     Document Type: Article

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