Medical image registration: a review

FPM Oliveira, JMRS Tavares - Computer methods in biomechanics …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents a review of automated image registration methodologies that have been
used in the medical field. The aim of this paper is to be an introduction to the field, provide …

[PDF][PDF] Performance assessment of combinative pixel-level image fusion based on an absolute feature measurement

J Zhao, R Laganiere, Z Liu - Int. J. Innov. Comput. Inf. Control, 2007 - researchgate.net
In this paper, a new metric for evaluating the performance of the combinative pixel-level
image fusion is defined based on an image feature measurement, ie phase congruency and …

Medical image denoising by parallel non-local means

X Mingliang, L Pei, L Mingyuan, F Hao, Z Hongling… - Neurocomputing, 2016 - Elsevier
The generation process of medical image will inevitably introduce certain noises. These
noises will degrade the image quality and affect the final clinical diagnosis. Therefore …

Anatomy assisted PET image reconstruction incorporating multi-resolution joint entropy

J Tang, A Rahmim - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
A promising approach in PET image reconstruction is to incorporate high resolution
anatomical information (measured from MR or CT) taking the anato-functional similarity …

Automatic registration of airborne and spaceborne images by topology map matching with SURF processor algorithm

A Brook, E Ben-Dor - Remote Sensing, 2011 - mdpi.com
Image registration is widely used in remote-sensing applications. The existing automatic
image registration techniques fall into two categories: Intensity-based and feature-based; the …

Modelling and monitoring urban built environment via multi-source integrated and fused remote sensing data

A Brook, E Ben-Dor, R Richter - … Journal of Image and Data Fusion, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Investigation of urban built environment includes a wide range of applications that require 3-
D information. New approaches are needed for near-real-time analysis of the urban …

Multi-parametric classification of Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment: the impact of quantitative magnetization transfer MR imaging

C Kiefer, L Brockhaus, K Cattapan-Ludewig, P Ballinari… - Neuroimage, 2009 - Elsevier
Multi-parametric and quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques have come
into the focus of interest, both as a research and diagnostic modality for the evaluation of …

MIRF: a multimodal image registration and fusion module based on DT-CWT

M Ghantous, M Bayoumi - Journal of Signal Processing Systems, 2013 - Springer
Image Fusion is a powerful and necessary tool to incorporate the relevant visual information
provided by multiple sensors simultaneously. The quality of the results however, is bounded …

A curvelet-based patient-specific prior for accurate multi-modal brain image rigid registration

M Freiman, M Werman, L Joskowicz - Medical Image Analysis, 2011 - Elsevier
We present a new non-uniform sampling method for the accurate estimation of mutual
information in multi-modal brain image rigid registration. Most existing density estimators …

A multi-modal automatic image registration technique based on complex wavelets

M Ghantous, S Ghosh… - 2009 16th IEEE …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Image registration is considered one of the most fundamental and crucial pre-processing
tasks in digital imaging. This paper describes a fast multimodal automatic image registration …