2012 Winter Project Week:CTLiverRegistration

Key Investigators

• UNC: Beatriz Paniagua, Martin Styner
• University of Michigan: Lucia Cevidanes
• AZE Research and Development, Karl Diedrich
• Brigham and Women's Hospital, Nobuhiko Hata
• Brigham and Women's Hospital, Atsushi Yamada

Objective

Register CT images of livers taken at different time points. Detect changes in tumors.

Approach, Plan

Segment bone using upper and lower Hounsfield units. Fixed registration of bone near liver using BRAINSFIT in slicer.

Progress

Planning stage.

Delivery mechanism

This work will be delivered to the NA-MIC Kit as a Slicer extension.

References

Hans Johnson, Greg Harris, Kent Williams. BRAINSFit: Mutual Information Rigid Registrations of Whole-Brain 3D Images, Using the Insight Toolkit. The Insight Journal. 2009.