Non-linear Registration Using Block-Matching and B-Splines
H. Hufnagel · 2004
The work presented in this thesis is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, original, except as acknowledged in the text. The material has not been submitted, either in whole or in part, at this or any other university. Ich versichere an Eides statt durch meine Unterschrift, dass ich die vorliegende Arbeit selbstaendig und ohne fremde Hilfe angefertigt und dass ich alle Stellen, die ich aus anderen Quellen entnommen habe, also solche gekennzeichnet habe. Diese Arbeit hat in dieser oder aehnlicher Form noch keiner anderen Pruefungsbehoerde vorgelegen. Medical image registration techniques are of particular importance to improve and facilitate working with images of the body interior. The main idea in medical image registration is to find a transformation that maps a source image as close as possible to a target image by determining a corresponding position for each point of the source. To find a mapping between two images that takes anatomic variabilities into account, the respective transformation must be non-linear.