title: Fast musculoskeletal registration based on shape matching.
abstract: This paper presents a new method for computing elastic and plastic deformations in the context of discrete deformable model-based registration. Internal forces are estimated by averaging local transforms between reference and current particle positions. Our technique can accommodate large non-linear deformations, and is unconditionally stable. Moreover, it is simple to implement and versatile. We show how to tune model stiffness and computational cost, which is important for efficient registration, and demonstrate our technique in the complex problem of inter-patient musculoskeletal registration.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Canada. bgilles@cs.ubc.ca
authors.forename: Benjamin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gilles
authors.forename: Dinesh K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Pai
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013382:Subtraction Technique