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...

The segmentations by human, TPS method, and SPM method are given in Figure 3. The summary table for all the coefficients and indices is given in Table 1, which shows that the performance of TPS is similar to that of SPM by comparing against manual segmentation. Also, the TPS segmentations tend to have smaller variances than the SPM segmentations. The subpixel property of TPS method is shown in ...

Aiming at the mosaic technology of the orthophoto acquired by Chinese remote sensing satellite CE-1, a thin-plate spline (TPS) function based method of image mosaic is proposed while the traditional mosaic method seems impossible. With the advantages of TPS (Thin-plate Spline) function in image transformer, the image fusion technology is introduced to get the seamless image mosaic result. Consi...

in many industrialized areas, the highest concentration of particulate matter, as a major concern on public health, is being felt worldwide problem. since the air pollution assessment and its evaluation with considering spatial dispersion analysis because of various factors are complex, in this paper, gis-based modeling approach was utilized to zoning pm2.5 dispersion over tehran, during one ye...

This paper proposes a novel method for image registration of lung CT scans. Our approach consists of a procedure for automatically establishing landmark correspondences in lung CT scan pairs and an elaborate variational image registration scheme. The landmark information is incorporated into the registration scheme as pre-registration using the landmark-based Thin-Plate-Spline (TPS) method. The...

In the early 1990s BCS was involved in some image processing and detection projects arising in both natural resource and defense settings. We were convinced that thin plate spline (TPS) functions could play an important role in developing effective software for image registration and change detection, but initially we encountered some computational challenges when using TPS functions on mid-siz...

This paper applies and evaluates an automatic mutual information-based registration algorithm across a broad spectrum of multimodal volume data sets. The algorithm requires little or no pre-processing, minimal user input and easily implements either affine, i.e. linear or thin-plate spline (TPS) warped registrations. We have evaluated the algorithm in phantom studies as well as in selected case...

Petroleum exploration and production are associated with great risk because of the uncertainty on subsurface conditions. Understanding the impact of those uncertainties on the production performance is a crucial part in the decision making process.Traditionally, uncertainty assessment is performed using experimental design and response surface method, in which a number of training points are se...

There has recently been increased interest in developing tensor data processing methods for the new medical imaging modality referred to as diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI). This paper proposes a method for interpolating the primary vector fields from human cardiac DT-MRI, with the particularity of achieving interpolation and denoising simultaneously. The method consists of ...

A semi-automated, non-rigid breast surface registration method is presented that involves solving the Laplace or diffusion equations over undeformed and deformed breast surfaces. The resulting potential energy fields and isocontours are used to establish surface correspondence. This novel surface-based method, which does not require intensity images, anatomical landmarks, or fiducials, is compa...