Abstract:Purpose: Marker‐based registration, needed especially when there is no sufficient bony anatomy for adequate match, plays an important role in the image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) systems, of which the accuracy of registration greatly depends on that of the location of the markers embed. Since the manual marker detection has many limits for its time consuming and labor intensive, it is essential to enable an automatic detection of makers to help to cut down the human error in registration as well as to get… Show more
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