The effect of image artifacts, organ motion and poor segmentation on the reliability and accuracy of 3D chamfer matching

Chamfer matching was tested on pairs of pelvic CT scans with a number of artificially and natural artifacts (for instance as model for CT-MR matching) and was found to be extremely robust against outliers (e.g., due to organ motion), missing data, low resolution, and poor segmentation of the images.

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