Nonrigid Registration of Prostate Diffusion-Weighted MRI

Nonrigid Registration of Prostate Diffusion-Weighted MRI

Motion and deformation are common in prostate diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) during acquisition. These misalignments lead to errors in estimating an apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) map fitted with DWI. To address this problem, we propose an image registration algorithm to align the prostate DWI and improve ADC map. First, we apply affine transformation to DWI to correc...

Computed diffusion-weighted MRI in prostate cancer

Nonrigid registration of brain MRI using NURBS

The focus of medical image registration has shifted to nonrigid registration. It is also a core component in computational neuroanatomy. In this paper, we propose an efficient registration framework which has feature of multiresolution and multigrid. In contrast to the existing registration algorithms. Free-Form Deformations based NURBS (Nonuniform Rational B Spline) are used to acquire nonrigi...

Nonrigid registration of myocardial perfusion MRI

This paper describes a fully automatic registration of 10 multi-slice myocardial perfusion magnetic resonance image sequences. The registration of these sequences is crucial for the clinical interpretation, which currently is subjected to manual labour. The approach used in this study is a nonrigid registration algorithm based on free-form deformations due to Rueckert et al. Inspection of diffe...

Limitations and Prospects for Diffusion-Weighted MRI of the Prostate

Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is the most effective component of the modern multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) scan for prostate pathology. DWI provides the strongest prediction of cancer volume, and the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) correlates moderately with Gleason grade. Notwithstanding the demonstrated cancer assessment value of DWI, the standard measurement and ...