RegistrationShop: An interactive 3D medical volume registration tool

RegistrationShop: An interactive 3D medical volume registration tool

Klein Haneveld, B.A.

Smit, N.N. (mentor)
Vilanova, A. (mentor)

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Intelligent Systems

Computer Graphics and Visualization Group

2014-03-26

Image registration is a technique where two images or volumes are mapped onto each other. In medical imaging this is used to combine and compare images from patients in order to find abnormalities or to track a patient’s treatment effects over time. There are registration algorithms and software packages available, but they are cumbersome and hard to use, making image registration a non-trivial and time consuming task. 2D visualization techniques are often used for visualizing 3D datasets and the results of the registration. This is a problem because one dimension is discarded that could give insight in the relative positioning of the datasets. REGISTRATIONSHOP was developed to improve and simplify the process of volume registra- tion with 3D visualizations and simple interactive tools. REGISTRATIONSHOP provides ways of creating basic visualizations of 3D volumetric data. Interactive rigid and non-rigid transformation tools can be used to manipulate the volumes. REGISTRATIONSHOP provides immediate visual feedback for all the rigid transformation tools. A novel 3D comparative visualization technique is introduced as well as a new way of placing landmarks in volumes. An evaluation was performed where experts found REGISTRATIONSHOP to be a promising tool for registration and visualization of the results.

registration
medical
volume
visualization
interaction

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d8a6b83e-61ad-41ed-94c3-f090ac256ba3

2014-03-26

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2014 Klein Haneveld, B.A.