Accurate CTMR vessel-guided nonrigid registration of largely deformed livers

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2463-2477

  Vásquez Osorio, Eliana M ^a   Hoogeman, Mischa S ^a   Méndez Romero, Alejandra ^a   Wielopolski, Piotr ^a   Zolnay, András ^a   Heijmen, Ben J M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

integrated segmentation and registration; liver; multimodality image registration; vessel based registration

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); DEFORMATION; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; STATISTICS; TUMORS;

INTEGRATED SEGMENTATION; MULTIMODALITY IMAGE REGISTRATION; MULTISCALE REGISTRATIONS; NONRIGID REGISTRATION METHOD; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; THIN PLATE SPLINE-ROBUST POINT MATCHING; VESSEL-BASED REGISTRATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIVER; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASCULARIZATION;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84861639904     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3701779     Document Type: Article

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