Multi-contrast MRI registration of carotid arteries based on cross-sectional images and lumen boundaries.
Yuxia WuXi ZhangXiaopan XuYang LiuGuopeng ZhangBaojuan LiHui-Jun ChenHongbing LuPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2017)
Keyphrases
- contrast enhanced
- cross sectional
- carotid artery
- mri data
- intravascular ultrasound
- deformation field
- image registration
- magnetic resonance imaging
- ultrasound images
- healthy volunteers
- computed tomography
- mr images
- fully automatic
- image data
- image analysis
- nonrigid registration
- medical images
- three dimensional
- fully automated
- medical imaging
- cross section
- ground truth
- deformable registration
- segmentation method
- region growing
- edge detection
- deformable models
- ct scans
- magnetic resonance images
- blood vessels
- boundary conditions
- speckle noise
- input image
- contrast enhancement
- synthetic data
- x ray
- object boundaries
- b spline
- region of interest