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2 February 2012 An automatic approach for 3D registration of CT scans
Yang Hu, Eli Saber, Sohail Dianat, Sreenath Rao Vantaram, Vishwas Abhyankar
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Abstract
CT (Computed tomography) is a widely employed imaging modality in the medical field. Normally, a volume of CT scans is prescribed by a doctor when a specific region of the body (typically neck to groin) is suspected of being abnormal. The doctors are required to make professional diagnoses based upon the obtained datasets. In this paper, we propose an automatic registration algorithm that helps healthcare personnel to automatically align corresponding scans from 'Study' to 'Atlas'. The proposed algorithm is capable of aligning both 'Atlas' and 'Study' into the same resolution through 3D interpolation. After retrieving the scanned slice volume in the 'Study' and the corresponding volume in the original 'Atlas' dataset, a 3D cross correlation method is used to identify and register various body parts.
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Yang Hu, Eli Saber, Sohail Dianat, Sreenath Rao Vantaram, and Vishwas Abhyankar "An automatic approach for 3D registration of CT scans", Proc. SPIE 8295, Image Processing: Algorithms and Systems X; and Parallel Processing for Imaging Applications II, 82951F (2 February 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.909322
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KEYWORDS
Computed tomography

Image registration

Image processing

3D image processing

Medical imaging

Binary data

Diagnostics

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