NON-RIGID REGISTRATION AND CORRESPONDENCE FINDING IN MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS USING MULTIPLE-LAYER FLEXIBLE MESH TEMPLATE MATCHING.

In this paper we present a novel technique for non-rigid medical image registration and correspondence finding based on a multiple-layer flexible mesh template matching technique. A statistical anatomical model is built in the form of a tetrahedral mesh, which incorporates both shape and density properties of the anatomical structure. After the affine transformation and global deformation of the model are computed by optimizing an energy function, a multiple-layer flexible mesh template matching is applied to find the vertex correspondence and achieve local deformation. The multiple-layer structure of the template can be used to describe different scale of anatomical features; furthermore, the template matching is flexible which makes the correspondence finding robust. A leave-one-out validation has been conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness and accuracy of our method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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