A novel elastic image registration approach is proposed, which can register both 2D medical images and gel electrophoresis automatically and accurately. Firstly, the global affine registration method based on image intensity is used to initialise a starting estimation of the robust registration algorithm. Then, by using iterative landmark based algorithm, the affine registration results are reg...

Previous work on nonrigid registration of medical images based on thin plate splines has concentrated on using interpolation schemes Such schemes force the corresponding land marks to exactly match each other and thus assume that the landmark positions are known exactly However in real applications the localization of landmarks is always prone to error Therefore to cope with these errors we hav...

This paper presents a method based on articulated models for the registration of spine data extracted from multimodal medical images of patients with scoliosis. With the ultimate aim being the development of a complete geometrical model of the torso of a scoliotic patient, this work presents a method for the registration of vertebral column data using 3D magnetic resonance images (MRI) acquired...

In this work, a novel and generic method for example-based color transfer is presented. The color transfer is formulated in two steps: first, an example-based Chromatic Adaptation Transform (CAT) has been designed to obtain an illuminant matching between input and example images. Second, the dominant colors of the input and example images are optimally mapped. The main strength of the method co...

Background: In nuclear medicine application often it is required to use computational methods for evaluation of organ absorbed dose. Monte Carlo simulation and phantoms have been used in many works before. The shape, size and volume in organs are varied, and this variation will produce error in dose calculation if no correction is applied. Materials and Methods: A computational framewo...

This paper provides a comparison of spline-based registration methods applied to register interventional Trans Rectal Ultrasound (TRUS) and pre-acquired Magnetic Resonance (MR) prostate images for needle guided prostate biopsy. B-splines and Thin-plate Splines (TPS) are the most prevalent spline-based approaches to achieve deformable registration. Pertaining to the strategic selection of corres...

Based on the thin plate spline approximation theory, we propose in this paper an efficient regularization algorithm for the reconstruction of numerical derivatives from two-dimensional scattered noisy data. An error estimation that deduces a good regularization parameter is given. Numerical results show that the proposed method is efficient and stable.

Topographic maps that illustrate variations in the density of different neuronal sub-types across the retina are valuable tools for understanding the adaptive significance of retinal specialisations in different species of vertebrates. To date, such maps have been created from raw count data that have been subjected to only limited analysis (linear interpolation) and, in many cases, have been p...

We show how to obtain esthetically pleasing contour plots using New S and GCVPACK. With these codes, thin plate splines can easily be used to interpolate “exact” data, and to produce smoothly varying contour plots, with none of the jagged corners that plague many other interpolation methods. It is noted that GCVPACK can also be used to interpolate data on the sphere and in Euclidean three space...