CT Image Segmentation and Registration to Monitor Diseases Around the Knee Joint

초록

Early diagnosis of OA (osteoarthritis) and monitoring treatment response are very important for OA patients. The follow-up examinations are frequently used by CT scan or MR imaging. The comparison of each medical image from different follow-up examinations is very important for OA treatment. For this comparison, accurate registration of 3D medical images between different CT examinations of same patient should be important to overcome unexpected misregistrations originated from many causes, different patient posture, different field of view, and different resolution of images on each CT scanning. In this study we attempt to show our new fast and effective registration algorithm for medical images.