QBISM: A Prototype 3-D Medical Image Database System.
Manish Kumar Arya, William F. Cody, Christos Faloutsos, Joel E. Richardson, Arthur Toya · 1993
this paper. However, these automatic or semi-automatic warping algorithms are extremely important for this application. It is precisely this technology that permits anatomic structure-based access to acquired medical images as well as comparisons among studies, even of different patients, as long as they have been warped to the same atlas. Furthermore, it enables the database to grow, and be queryable, without time-consuming manual segmentation of the data.