[Insight-users] Nonlinear registration of MRI to CT

[Joshua Cates]

Thanks for the pointers, Marius.  Glad to know someone has been doing this 
successfully!

Josh.


On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Marius Staring wrote:

> Hi Josh,
> 
> ITK is made for just that!
> 
> Because you want to register between two different modalities, you need a 
> similarity measure that is robust for that. That is the most important 
> thing. I have good experience with the mutual information similarity measure.
> 
> I usually use the itkMattesMutualInformationImageToImageMetric.
> 
> You can use any deformable transform for this task. For example a 
> BSplineDeformableTransform can do the job.
> 
> I suggest you also use a multiresolution framework. You can study one of 
> the examples in The Guide.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Marius
> 
> 
> 
> At 09:27 20/07/04, Joshua Cates wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Does anyone have experience with nonlinear registration of (T1) MRI onto
> >CT?  Are any of the deformable algorithms in ITK up to the task?  Any
> >suggestions would be appreciated.
> >
> >thanks,
> >
> >Josh
> >
> >
> >
> >---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 18:03:38 -0600
> >From: Carsten Wolters <wolters at sci.utah.edu>
> >To: insight-users at itk.org
> >Cc: Seok Lew <slew at sci.utah.edu>, Joshua Cates <cates at sci.utah.edu>,
> >      Darby J Van Uitert <darbyb at cs.utah.edu>
> >Subject: Nonlinear registration
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >I would like to register a T1-MRI onto a CT-image. Since the MR-image is
> >nonlinear distorted, I would have to use a nonlinear registration approach.
> >Are there methods in the ITK-toolbox that I could test for this purpose?
> >Thanks in advance and cheers
> >    carsten
> >
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