A survey of medical image registration

A three-dimensional, histological and deformable atlas of the human basal ganglia. I. Atlas construction based on immunohistochemical and MRI data

“…Intra-or inter-patient, mono or multimodal registration has been studied extensively (Maintz and Viergever, 1998;Zitova and Flusser, 2003), but coregistration of 2D histological and 3D MRI data of the same specimen requires a specific methodology which can mimic the data acquisition protocol (Malandain et al, 2004;Mega et al, 1997;Schormann and Zilles, 1998).…”

Volumetric vs. surface-based alignment for localization of auditory cortex activation

“…If nonlinear transformations such as local dilation, contraction, or shearing can be applied to deform the images, registration can be significantly improved. Considerable research has been directed towards development of nonlinear methods in the last decade (Maintz and Viergever, 1998;Toga, 1999;Thompson and Toga, 2000). High-dimensional morphing methods have been suggested that can morph an entire 3D volume to match the intensity values with a canonical anatomy (Evans et al, 1994;Christensen et al, 1996;Christensen et al, 1997;Joshi et al, 1997;Woods et al, 1998).…”

Assembling models of embryo development: Image analysis and the construction of digital atlases

“…Repeating this operation is the core of digital atlases construction. For the same purpose, medical imaging makes extensive use of registration techniques (Maintz and Viergever, 1998;Zitova and Flusser, 2003). Three main registration techniques to build digital atlases can be distinguished according to the information used to assemble the data and the minimization criteria chosen accordingly:…”