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Ultrasound is a universal guidance tool for many medical procedures, whereas it is of poor image quality and resolution. Merging high-contrast image information from other image modalities enhances the guidance capability of ultrasound. However, few registration methods work well for it. In this paper we present a surface-to-image registration technique for mono- or multimodal medical data concerning ultrasound. This approach is able to automatically register the object surface to its counterpart in image volume. Three similarity measurements are investigated in the rigid registration experiments of the pubic arch in transrectal ultrasound images. It shown that the selection of the similarity function is related to the ultrasound characteristics of the object to be registered.
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Shao, W. et al. (2006). Evaluation on Similarity Measures of a Surface-to-Image Registration Technique for Ultrasound Images. In: Larsen, R., Nielsen, M., Sporring, J. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2006. MICCAI 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4191. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11866763_91
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