Image similarity and tissue overlaps as surrogates for image registration accuracy: Widely used but unreliable

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 153-163

  Rohlfing, Torsten ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonrigid image registration; registration accuracy; unreliable surrogates; validation

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE REGISTRATION; ANATOMICAL REGIONS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; IMAGE DIFFERENCE; IMAGE SIMILARITY; IMAGE TRANSFORMATIONS; INVERSE CONSISTENCY ERRORS; NONRIGID IMAGE REGISTRATION; REGISTRATION ACCURACY; REGISTRATION ALGORITHMS; UNRELIABLE SURROGATES; VALIDATION;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

IMAGE REGISTRATION;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84856690675     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2011.2163944     Document Type: Article

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