Automatic PET-CT image registration method based on mutual information and genetic algorithms

The Scientific World Journal

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Marinelli, Martina ^a   Positano, Vincenzo ^b   Tucci, Francesco ^c   Neglia, Danilo ^b   Landini, Luigi ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CALCULATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATA BASE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; VOLUMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; MYOCARDIUM; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84861021151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/2012/567067     Document Type: Article

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