Transformations of and Similarity Measures for Diffusion Tensor MRIs
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چکیده
This paper discusses registration of diffusion tensor (DT) MRIs (magnetic resonance images). An existing method for registration of 3D intensity images, the multi-resolution elastic matching algorithm, [1-3], is adapted to work with this new data type. A method is described for extracting the appropriate reorientation of DTs to accompany warps of the image from the local displacement field. Furthermore, the effectiveness of a number of similarity measures for matching DT images are tested. Preliminary results over a single pair of DT images of the human brain indicate that the best results are obtained by use of a tensor component difference measure.
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