TY - GEN
T1 - Deformable registration of male pelvises in CT images
AU - Zhan, Yiqiang
AU - Shen, Dinggang
AU - Taylor, Russell H.
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - In this paper, a method for deformable registration of male pelvises in CT images is proposed. It is composed of three major steps. Firstly, an attribute vector is defined for each voxel in the image, and is used to reflect the density distribution of the bone tissues in the neighborhood of that voxel. Different anatomical structures thus own different attribute vectors. Secondly, the match of two images under a particular deformation is evaluated by integrating the similarities of attribute vectors on the corresponding voxels. Finally, a set of hierarchical deformation strategies are employed, in order to avoid the local minimum match of two images. The performance of this deformable registration method has been demonstrated by both synthesized and real CT images of pelvises.
AB - In this paper, a method for deformable registration of male pelvises in CT images is proposed. It is composed of three major steps. Firstly, an attribute vector is defined for each voxel in the image, and is used to reflect the density distribution of the bone tissues in the neighborhood of that voxel. Different anatomical structures thus own different attribute vectors. Secondly, the match of two images under a particular deformation is evaluated by integrating the similarities of attribute vectors on the corresponding voxels. Finally, a set of hierarchical deformation strategies are employed, in order to avoid the local minimum match of two images. The performance of this deformable registration method has been demonstrated by both synthesized and real CT images of pelvises.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:17144378608
SN - 0780383885
SN - 9780780383883
T3 - 2004 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Macro to Nano
SP - 1463
EP - 1466
BT - 2004 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
T2 - 2004 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Macro to Nano
Y2 - 15 April 2004 through 18 April 2004
ER -