Hierarchical alignment of breast DCE-MR images by groupwise registration and robust feature matching

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 353-366

  Kim, Minjeong ^a   Wu, Guorong ^a   Shen, Dinggang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

breast tumor image; dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) MRI; feature based deformable registration; groupwise registration; local steering kernel

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; CHEMICAL DETECTION; DEFORMATION; DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

BREAST TUMOR; DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION; DYNAMIC CONTRAST ENHANCED MRIS (DCE); GROUPWISE REGISTRATION; LOCAL STEERING KERNELS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 84855467948     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3665705     Document Type: Article

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