A Novel Framework for Deformable Registration Evaluation and Quality Assurance
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Purpose Deformable registration is now routinely used at many radiation oncology centers not only for automatic contouring, but also for diagnostic image registration and dose accumulation. In these applications, it is essential that these registrations are not only characterized with phantom studies, but also be checked on a per-patient basis around the regions where the deformable registration is guiding the clinical decisions. Here we test a novel framework for evaluation of deformable registration using a real-patient point-validated pixel-based breathing thorax model.
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