Intensity-Based Image Registration Using Robust Correlation Coefficients

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1430-1444

  Kim, Jeongtae ^a   Fessler, Jeffrey A ^b  

^a Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Image registration; Mutual information; Outlier; Robust correlation coefficient; Robustness

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STATISTICS; SURGERY; X RAYS;

IMAGE REGISTRATION; MUTUAL INFORMATION; ROBUST CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 9244238649     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.835313     Document Type: Article

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