Volumetric Morphologic Deformation Method for Intersubject Image Registration

摘要

An automated image processing method is proposed for anatomic standardization that can elastically map one subject's magnetic resonance image (MRI) to a standard reference MRI to enable intersubject and cross-group studies. In this method, linear transformations based on bicommissural stereotaxy are first applied to grossly align the input image to the reference image. Then, the candidate corresponding regions in the input image are identified based on the contour information form the presegmented reference image.