Investigation on the use of deformable registrations in lymph node tracking over time.

Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2011 Aug; 2011: 8037-40
Yu P, Sheah K, Poh CL

Evolutionary features of lymph nodes such as change in size over time are decisive descriptors to assess disease progression in cancer patient. Other than investigate at one point in time, it is some-more useful to derive temporal analysis on structures of interest. The paper presents a make use of of deformable registration in lymph node tracking, quite in a context of disease progression. We found that a extent of disease progression plays an critical purpose in determining a opening of deformable registration in aligning up small anatomic structures, such as lymph node. Both Demons and B-spline registrations have their own advantages in different medical context.

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