Nonrigid brain MR image registration using uniform spherical region descriptor

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 157-169

  Liao, Shu ^a   Chung, Albert C S ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Monotonic gray level transformation invariant; nonrigid image registration; rotation invariant; uniform spherical region descriptor (USRD)

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL SIMILARITY; BIAS FIELD; BRAIN SEGMENTATION; DESCRIPTORS; ENERGY FUNCTIONS; FEATURE MATCHING; FEATURE-BASED; GRAY-LEVEL; GRAY-LEVEL TRANSFORMATION; IMAGE CORRESPONDENCE; IMAGE FEATURES; IMAGING PROCESS; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; NONRIGID IMAGE REGISTRATION; REGISTRATION ACCURACY; REGISTRATION PROCESS; ROTATION INVARIANT; VOXEL INTENSITIES;

ARTS COMPUTING; IMAGE MATCHING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ROTATION; SPHERES;

IMAGE REGISTRATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84255199089     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2011.2159615     Document Type: Article

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