Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Volume 34, Issue 7 , Pages 553-562 , October 2010

Effective incorporating spatial information in a mutual information based 3D–2D registration of a CT volume to X-ray images

  • Guoyan Zheng

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Received 3 August 2009 ,Revised 28 December 2009 ,Accepted 23 March 2010.

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 A preliminary version of this paper was presented in the 11th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2008), which was held in New York, USA, September 6–10, 2008.

PII: S0895-6111(10)00039-X

doi: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2010.03.004

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Volume 34, Issue 7 , Pages 553-562 , October 2010