Author(s)

R. Rosas Romero & J. Rodríguez Asomoza

Abstract

Estimation of non-rigid deformations in the three-dimensional space and time domains in medical images R. Rosas Romero & J. Rodriguez Asomoza Departament of Electrical Engineering, Universidad Abstract Estimation of the non-rigid deformation in objects over the three-dimensional space and time domains can be applied to the field of medical image analysis. We present a new methodology that extends techniques for estimation of deformation over the spatial domain to incorporate the time domain by introducing a scheme for tracking the surface in moving and deformable objects, which supports semi-automatic segmentation of sets of 3-D medical images. Furthermore, previous methods for estimation of deformation are based only on matching two 3-D surfaces by minimizing the differences between them. In the other hand, our approach also incorporates the matching of two sets of feature points, and we have shown that deformation estimates based on simultaneous matching of surfaces and features are more acc

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