Validation of nonrigid image registration using finite-element methods application to breast MR images.

Presents a novel method for validation of nonrigid medical image registration. This method is based on the simulation of physically plausible, biomechanical tissue deformations using finite-element methods. Applying a range of displacements to finite-element models of different patient anatomies gen...

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Published in:	IEEE Transactions on medical imaging 22, 2 (2003).
Main Author:	Schnabel, J.A
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	B-splines. Biomechanical tissue deformations. Brain. Breast MR images. Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance mammography image pairs. Deformed image co-registration. Displacements. Finite-element methods. Free-form deformations. Generic simulations. Gold standard deformations. Heart. Intrasubject tissue deformation. Liver. Model solutions. Motion correction. Nonrigid medical image registration. Normalized mutual information. Patient anatomies. Registration accuracy. Simulation. Subvoxel accuracy. Voxel displacements. Voxel similarity measure.