title: A hierarchical elastic registration scheme based on deformable segmentation.
abstract: In this paper a hierarchical scheme is presented for contour-based elastic image registration. An improved deformable model is used to simultaneously segment and register feature from multiple images. The objects in different images are segmented by evolving a single contour and meanwhile the parameters of affine registration transformation are found out. After that, a contour-constrained elastic registration is applied to register the images correctly. The experimental results indicate that the proposed approach is effective to segment and register medical images.
authors.affiliation: Department of computer science and engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China. simonran@sjtu.edu.cn
authors.forename: Ran
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Xin
authors.forename: Qi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Feihu