A Deformable Finite Element Model for Breast Image Registration

ISBN-13: 9783639127034 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 104 str.

Mehmet Zubeyir Unlu

Opis

Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer amongwomen. X-ray mammography is the primary and highlysensitive but not very specific way to screen anddiagnose it, and in some cases additional imaging andbiopsies are necessary. It is desirable to have analternative non-invasive method to follow upequivocal or difficult to interpret X-ray mammograms,or any inconclusive breast examination.Tomographic medical imaging modalities such as CT,MRI, PET and SPECT provide highly specialized andcomplementary information to screen and diagnosebreast cancer. More complete information about thevolumes of interest can be provided by registrationand fusion of multiple image volumes created by different modalities. Therefore, image-processingtechniques and algorithms are needed to estimategeometrical differences between 3D scans of the sameregion of interest in different or in the samemodalities and to register them.In this book, a new image acquisition and processingprotocol, and a method, which relies on a finiteelement method deformable breast model and a set offiducial skin markers placed on the breast surfacefor nonrigid 3D breast image registration is presented.

O autorze

Received the PhD degree in electrical
engineering from Syracuse University in 2006. Currently,
Assistant Professor of electrical engineering at Izmir Institute
of Technology, Izmir, Turkiye. Research interests are nonrigid
breast image registration, brain image segmentation, deformable
models, finite element method in medicine.