Automatic registration of CT and MR of the pelvis using chamfer matching

Author

van Herk, M. ; de Munck, J. ; Lebesque, J.V. ; Muller, S. ; Touw, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Radiotherapy, Netherlands Cancer Inst., Amsterdam, Netherlands

Volume

3

fYear

1996

fDate

31 Oct-3 Nov 1996

Firstpage

1194

Abstract

The aim of this work is to develop and test an automatic image registration method for CT and MR of the pelvis which does not require external landmarks, and works with MR slices in any orientation (e.g., axial, coronal and saggital). By combining chamfer matching with automatic segmentation methods, a fast (a few minutes) and accurate (about 2 mm) method for CT-MR registration is obtained. However, failures of the matching method due to local minima cannot always be avoided. In such cases, manual adjustment of the starting position is sufficient to obtain a good match

Keywords

biomedical NMR; computerised tomography; image matching; image registration; image segmentation; medical image processing; CT; CT-MR registration; MR; automatic image registration method; axial; chamfer matching; coronal; external landmarks; local minima; matching method failures; medical diagnostic imaging; pelvis; saggital; starting position manual adjustment; Anatomy; Computed tomography; Cost function; Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society; Image registration; Image segmentation; Optimization methods; Pelvis; Skin;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1996. Bridging Disciplines for Biomedicine. Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3811-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1996.652769

Filename

652769