Point landmarks for registration of CT and MR images

We propose here a point landmark based registration method utilizing geometric invariance properties of biomedical images. These point landmarks constitute entrance and exit points of concavities of individual structures and points of inflexion of curves, derived from the convex hull. Registration is performed in a canonical frame of reference. This technique is fast, semi-automatic and computationally inexpensive.

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