A Hybrid Patient-Specific Biomechanical Model Based Image Registration Method for the Motion Estimation of Lungs

Respiratory motion can cause artefacts in images during thorax and abdomen imaging. Accurate estimation and correction for the effects of respiratory motion can potentially increase the applications of medical images in diagnosis, treatment planning and image-guided interventions etc. (McClelland et  al., 2013). A wide range of different techniques including biomechanical models, intensity-based image registration or hybrid methods have been proposed for estimating lung motion (Murphy et al., 2011; Fuerst et al., 2015), but most research efforts are put on intensity-based image registration techniques.
Source: Medical Image Analysis - Category: Radiology Authors: Source Type: research