title: Image registration based on boundary mapping.
abstract: A new two-stage approach for nonlinear brain image registration is proposed. In the first stage, an active contour algorithm is used to establish a homothetic one-to-one map between a set of region boundaries in two images to be registered. This mapping is used in the second step: a two-dimensional transformation which is based on an elastic body deformation. This method is tested by registering magnetic resonance images to atlas images.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Radiol. & Radiol. Sci., Johns Hopkins Univ. Sch. of Med., Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Davatzikos
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Prince
authors.forename: R N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Bryan