2012 Summer Project Week:Deformable Registration for Head and Neck
Key Investigators
- Georgia Tech: Ivan Kolesov
- MGH: Greg Sharp
- BWH: Yi Gao
- Boston University: Allen Tannenbaum
Objective
We are developing a method for full body (entire head and neck region), deformable, inter-patient registration for CT volumes. This problem is difficult because after rigid alignment is performed, large deformations are still present.
Approach, Plan
Our approach for analyzing diffusion tensors is summarized in the IPMI 2007 reference below. The main challenge to this approach is <foo>.
Our plan for the project week is to first try out <bar>,...
Progress
Software for the fiber tracking and statistical analysis along the tracts has been implemented. The statistical methods for diffusion tensors are implemented as ITK code as part of the DTI Software Infrastructure project. The methods have been validated on a repeated scan of a healthy individual. This work has been published as a conference paper (MICCAI 2005) and a journal version (MEDIA 2006). Our recent IPMI 2007 paper includes a nonparametric regression method for analyzing data along a fiber tract.
Delivery Mechanism
This work will be delivered to the NA-MIC Kit as an
- ITK Module
