Using mutual information (MI) for automated 3D registration in the pelvis and thorax region for radiotherapy treatment planning.
Alev Kutan ErdiYu Chi HuChen-Shou ChuiPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2000)
Keyphrases
- mutual information
- treatment planning
- ct images
- image registration
- automated segmentation
- image guided
- deformation field
- medical imaging
- ct scans
- deformable registration
- radiation therapy
- statistical shape model
- registration accuracy
- computer aided
- clinical applications
- pet ct
- region of interest
- multimodal image registration
- computed tomography
- medical images
- similarity measure
- imaging modalities
- feature selection
- prostate cancer
- fully automated
- image pairs
- intraoperative
- medical image analysis
- x ray
- input image
- sum of squared differences
- shape analysis
- image analysis
- anatomical structures
- magnetic resonance
- computer assisted
- segmentation method
- image processing
- treatment plan
- fracture detection
- cancer patients
- respiratory motion
- accurate segmentation
- registration errors
- medical data